Mind your own business…

[Davedrave]

When I was small, if I asked about something my mother didn’t want me to know about (for example, that a parcel she had brought home contained a present for me), she would say it was a “wim wom for a wowser”.
If I asked my father where he’d been, and he didn’t want me to know, he would say “upper knocker down street, three doors past the shutter”. The first one seems to exist in several versions, but has anyone come across the second?

[Milliepede]

Not heard of either of them, is it a regional thing?

[Christine53]

Our version was " a wim wom for grinding smoke " Not heard of the second one.

[Andy J2022]

If one of my grandmothers, who lived with us, decided that I was being too inquisitive or annoying, she would tell me, in a kindly way, to pop off and sell my matches. I have never heard this expression at any other time.

[Christine53]

You've set me off now ! The answer to what's the time - " half past pickaxe quarter to shovel " and something you couldn't find was " up in Annie's room behind the clock "

[oldfashionedgirl]

Something I couldn’t find was
‘Hanging from my to lip shouting Tarzan !’
 

[mazi]

When I couldn’t find things it was “by my clogs on the piano”

Mike

[coombs]

I got told by relatives "I gotta go and see a man about a dog" as a polite way of telling me to keep my nose out. That phrase is common, and is known in Australia, as sunny Aussie soap Home And Away had a character mention that phrase in 1994.

[Viktoria]

I got told by relatives "I gotta go and see a man about a dog" as a polite way of telling me to keep my nose out. That phrase is common, and is known in Australia, as sunny Aussie soap Home And Away had a character mention that phrase in 1994.

That is generally used by men to say they need the “ Gents”!
Viktoria.