| Mumism:
Common sentences and quotations used by mother's world-wide. "Mumisms" are
genetically built into all mothers and are passed on from generation to generation.
Sometimes found in other people's speech and includes repeated use of clichés that make
one's voice sound exactly like their mother's (see mother tongue). |
See if you recognise any of these:
- "Don't EVER let me catch you doing that again!"
- "If you have to ask the answer is NO."
- "Why didn't you go before we got in the car?"
- "You can look but DON'T TOUCH!"
- "I've got eyes in the back of my head, that's how"
- "Don't pick it, it'll get infected."
- "I don't care who started it, I said stop it now!"
- "I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like one!"
- "Let me kiss it and make it better..."
- "If I catch you doing that one more time, I'll..."
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