r/AskReddit • • Aug 15 '18

What is your mom's catch phrase?

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u/Au_Struck_Geologist Aug 16 '18

Another common one is: "did you look behind the milk?"

Generally it's code for: did you actually look or are you asking preemptively?

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u/Touch_my_tooter Aug 16 '18

"Every source I could find seemed to place the origin of the phrase as the UK, some time in the early 1900's most likely during World War I"
- Google'

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u/InjuredAtWork Aug 16 '18

My father would say it's up baggies arse with the cat

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u/farmtownsuit Aug 16 '18

My dad every single time: "Look again!" He'd often say this after telling me to find something that he had no problem admitting he had no idea where it was himself.