San Fairy Ann

I am sat at my dining table in the cold early morning thinking of family phrases that are handed down throughtout the generations. These "sayings" unfortunately often die away when individuals pass on, and I think that is such a sad thing when the phrase is indicative of an era or place in time.
My Grandmother and mother always used the phrase San Fairy Ann when referring to something of no consequance. It was always used in a rather dissmissive way and I wondered this morning ( when giving the hens some cooked pasta and special K as a treat against the cold) where it actually came from.
Thank god for the internet, for,after two minutes of google-ing I found the following:-

[A] When the British Tommy arrived in France to fight in the First World War, he was presented with a language he struggled to make sense of. What he did to the pronunciation of French and Belgian place names is a wonder, such as turning Ypres into Wipers. He picked up a lot of French expressions, but he changed them into something that sounded English. This was the fate of ça ne fait rien, “it does not matter”, which became a British Army catchphrase in that war as an expression of resigned — or cynical — acceptance of some state of affairs, usually brought about by bungling officers. One English version of it was the one you quote, others were san fairy anna and even send for Mary Ann, though perhaps san fairy ann was the most common. It largely fell out of use after the War, and seems not to have been taken up by servicemen in the Second World War.

I wondered if Gran's nickname of "Scalabine" could be found on google, but apart from one chaps surname I could not find a thing.
Listening to Steve Allen on LBC this morning, I heard him say another of my mother's waspish comments
"I want I want!...doesn't get!" he was shouting, berating the modern culture of getting everything that you see in the shops. My mother always used it when we were asking for sweets in the 1960's. Not one her nicer phrases

We are going out to dinner later with Janet, Ned and Ned's son, so I will ask her if she remembers any "family sayings"