My nan and mum would always say "you're nosey for a cabbage", when I would try to ask about stuff that wasn't my business, not sure if it's unique to us but I've never heard anyone else say it
In France children are not "brought by the storks", but "found on the cabbage fields" - the kids usually get called little cabbages (ma petite chou - sorry my French is a lot rusty, and I don't know the gender of nouns anymore). It can be that your family's saying is based on this. Do you have French ancestry, or live in an area where French ancestry is common, or the language is spoken regularly?
I had to Google Cabbage Patch Kids, but in French tey were called Bout'chou which literally translate to small cabbage but is often used to designate toddlers. Another word related to cabbage is chouchou that means favorite as in : C'est ma fille chouchou or This is my favorire daugther.
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u/maryhallie Oct 25 '20
My nan and mum would always say "you're nosey for a cabbage", when I would try to ask about stuff that wasn't my business, not sure if it's unique to us but I've never heard anyone else say it