Here are some of the sayings I was raised with….
About shopping for better value items:
When you buy cheap, you have cheap.
After something you paid a lot of money for malfunctions or breaks:
What do you want for nothing?
About tickling- reflecting ambivalence:
Stop it; I like it.
About sibling battles:
He hit me back first.
Philosophy of family relations:
He’s mad; so he’ll get glad.
About love and marriage:
You should wait for the right man like K did.
(K’s husband divorced her a few years later and moved in with his male lover.)
(From a mother to her son– as reported by her son’s wife)
You can always get another wife, but you only have one mother.
And now two that are totally irrelevant to anyone living in Israel:
Table etiquette:
When you set the table, always remember serving pieces.
What are serving pieces?
You can’t wear white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day.
(our only white rule is YES! White for Yom Kippur!)
Please feel free to 1. guess who said each of these
2. add some sayings of the grownups of your own
From triLcat (Thank you! How could I have forgotten!!!!)
About yummy foods:
Did that piece of cake have a twin?
or
Do you know what this tastes like? It tastes like another one.
About yummy foods:
Did that piece of cake have a twin?