Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
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"Silliness leads to tears" typically said after energetic goofiness has led to an 'owie'.
Bonus: Grandparents were fond of "Children should be seen and not heard."
"What's the bullshit?' = How are you?
anywho
You must've never been to the Midwest. I hear it all the time here.
I get irrationally annoyed when I hear that one.
And it really is irrational. I say 'Yup' quite often, and there's not much difference when you get down to brass tacks
Onward and sideways.
"heads on them like mice" I'm still not clear what the hell he meant. Likely something unpleasant.
I'm guessing small brains?
I assumed something similar, but ended up looking it up. Apparently It means there are lots of them. Teeming.
Oxford Uni Press says
"We're merrily going bankrupt"/ " We're merrily destroying ourselves"
(Two version because it's a translation)
Instead of swearing my mother would with say Snivelswitch or Son of a seacooks dishclothe.