Irish Sayings!! Please Add your favourites...

Villain

"Shes that big you could neither turn nor rolll her"

"reared under the tit of a cow"

kmick

He'd walk over 7 naked women for a pint of Guinness.

TradLad

Some one who is cheeky:

He has a neck on him like a jockey's boll*x!!

Sound as a pound

Sound as a bell

Il kick 10 different colours of sh*t outta ya!

oriain

Someone who's a quick witted/bit devious:

he's a rale cute hoor!

A randy chap:

Shur he'd get up on a cracked plate!

Villain

oriain wrote: »

Shur he'd get up on a cracked plate!

or the crack of dawn

patmac

These two are related:
One on the tit and one on the way.

A fertile man:
Sure all he has to do is hang his trousers on the end of the bed.

EL_Loco

from me travels I've been told the following strike people as being at least something they haven't heard before, but maybe not neccessarily irish.

That's "the business":as in good, much like "deadly" mentioned earlier.
Thanks "a million": probably from things like cead mile failte
"ah yeah, no": you say "ah yeah" as in I hear what you've said, but then you disagree with the statement and say no.

the only truely Irish thing i can think of is the use of "banjaxed"

ayatollah

unnattractive female:

head on her like a well chawed toffee

after a particularly vicious deployment of methane from the F.a.o.:

Followed through on that one!

unlucky in love:

couldnt score in a whore house

Inepetitude:

Couldnt organise a piss up in a brewrey

well endowed:

like a baby's arm holding an apple

a car which is hard on petrol:

pass everything bar a petrol station

sorry know i know some better ones

suffering from a little intellectual ineptitude!!

Danno

Whats the craic lads?

Any sca?

As mane as dyke water

About as useless as tits on a bull / ashtray on a motorbike

Not worth a fcuk

Pyss down yer back and tell ya you're sweating

Wouldn't hurl snow off a rope

You'd find it if there were a tenner stuck on it

He's so mane he wouldn't spend Christmas

The price of a jacket for a gooseberry

She couldn't give a flyin fcuk what people thought of her

Mick: Howya Paddy
Paddy: Not too rale bad, and urself

Capt'n Midnight

He wouldn't give you the steam off his piss

TradLad

On someone who is very thin:

He's so miserable looking one eye wud do him!

Mahatma coat

Rough as a Badgers Foreskin.


and in wexford they use the word Quare a lot

Quare bad, Quare good, thats a Quare lookin yoke, e's a bit of a Quarefella

scheister

some nice ones i have come across

For a ugly bird

Des kelly wud not lay her
the tide wud not take her out

unlucky in love
ya wud not score in an open goal

Jamey

On someone ugly:

"If you had a head like that you'd fight any dog in town"

BaldieHewn

Wonderful quote from the Last Days of the Celtic Tiger - "She has a face on her that would make a Luas take a diversion through a field!"

dh0661

Villain wrote: »

or the crack of dawn

I've always wondered who Dawn is, poor girl.:p

One that always gets me going, yea I'll do that now - in a minuet.

dh0661

BaldieHewn wrote: »

Wonderful quote from the Last Days of the Celtic Tiger - "She has a face on her that would make a Luas take a diversion through a field!"

And pre Celtic Tiger, my Dad always has this one - Sally O' Brien and the way she might look at ya!
Some advert for Harp larger I belive.

Fresh Pots

its chuir cold today so it is (wexford saying)

dh0661

I have just remembered another one that my Dad has, he's from Cork boy!.
Langer ! - Remember that song ?.
When I was young - he was calling anyone that annoyed him a langer, long before the song.

Sam Kade

dh0661 wrote: »

I have just remembered another one that my Dad has, he' from Cork boy!.
Langer ! - Remember that song ?.
He was calling anyone that annoyed him a langer, long before the song.

Langer was said in Cork for years and before the song, you should come across the border more often.

Sam Kade

She has a face on her that would turn milk sour.

He wouldn't work his way out of a wet paper bag.

That isn't worth a fiddelers fvck.

dh0661

I was in a court room a few years ago, while there a case re. a wino was in progress. The Judge asked the defendant if he had drink taken, to which the poor man replied, just a tooth full your Honour.:D

danh789

Nearly never bulled the cow................unless the bull's name was nearly

As funny as a burning orphanage

Mother Teresa wouldn’t kiss her

She has a face on her like a bulldog that's just licked piss off a nettle

to abuse someone:
you're nothing but a dirty foreskin

to someone who has got sunburnt:
you look like a bit of chicken in a ham sandwich

walshs3

savaiste cabaiste (spelling????)

Would ya be well?

pullin' the balls off yourself:p

sound as a rowler.

Going around with a sour puss on him/her.

Whats the story?

Howz it hangin?

Refering to the other (female) half

The quayer yoke (spelt phonetically)

Refering to your father:

The auld lad.

Heard in the big smoke:

Me head is melted.

Your wreckin me head/buzz.

Ah jaysus howye.

Ill bleedin batter ye!:eek:

TradLad

Person not fond of work:

If there was work in the bed, he'd sleep on the floor!!

radioactiveman

the insult: He's nothin but a ****ehawk - can't get more irish than that!
or 'balubas drunk' pretty sure that originated here

Goodluck2me

I left her with a face like a painters radio!

FrCrilly

I'm sweatin' like a paedophile in a Barney suit.

You're as welcome as a fart in a space suit.

markontap

"I'm going out for a minute, I'll be back in a sec.."

Sam Kade

You look like a sh1t after a shower.

He was too weak to fart. (made that one up myself)

It would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

She would put a horn on a deadman.

Would you look at the gaach of yourman.