33 Hilarious Family Idioms You’ll Want to Adopt

There’s nothing quite like the embarrassment of accidentally letting a family idiom slip during a conversation with people who you’re not related to. There’s simply no way to explain away why you described something as “more fun than eating watermelon in a rental car.” While the exuberance of freely eating messy food in a car you don’t own is self-explanatory, the phrase still raises a lot of questions — and makes friends think twice about letting you borrow their car. 

On that note, we rounded up some of the most hilarious turns of phrase that Redditors use with their families, and there are definitely some here you’ll want to adopt.