Sayings.....Rural/Regional even Funny!

freedominacup

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

cute geoge

A small little hardy hoor i used work with used always say when he saw a big lad '' He makes a big shlt i would say''

kk.man

Heard this one anout a dodgy character a few years back...he can't lie straight in the bed.

This one about making a mess of a task...he is making a pigs mickey of it.

CloughCasey1

A clumsy fella.....that fooker would bend a crowbar in the bog.

CloughCasey1

A brave lad (usually gaa lads saying this)......that lad would put his head where you wouldnt put a shovel.

jack of all

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

A brave lad (usually gaa lads saying this)......that lad would put his head where you wouldnt put a shovel.

Another variant on that one, being careful when when operating machinery:

"Don't put your hand anywhere you wouldn't put your mickey!"

ganmo

My dad came out with a beaut this week, the ould starting price negeotations by insulting the animal.
'How much do ya want for the ould frame'
'€€ and I'll throw in the handlebars for free'

Handlebars meaning horns

Dupont

Im flat out like a badger on the bypass

Bullocks

Dupont wrote: »

Im flat out like a badger on the bypass

Flat out drinking like a lizard

SmartinMartin

my mother in law has some great ones.

Leave half an hour early, just to allow for the cow on the track.

She came from 9 acres and now she's the biggest snob in the town.

In response to the weather observation 'it's close ', she stated 'it is if you're near '.

foxy farmer

Worked for a company back in the 90s down in Tralee. A member of staff was acting as a witness in a compo case involving the company. He was accompanied by the company's legal rep. Yer man had never seen the inside of a courthouse in his life and couldn't get over the bedlam and chaos both inside and outside the courtroom. He mentioned it to the legal rep at lunchtime. The answer he got back was this.

"Tis like Puck Fair below in Killorglin with Duffys Circus thrown in for good measure."

Tail painter

He/She has a face like a well beaten arse

Remember the old shiny toilet paper from school. We used to call it John Wayne, cos its rough and its tough and it takes no ****!

foxy farmer

You wouldn't get the likes of that/him in a lucky bag.
Something/one truly unique usually considered ridiculous.

CloughCasey1

foxy farmer wrote: »

You wouldn't get the likes of that/him in a lucky bag.
Something/one truly unique usually considered ridiculous.

If pricks were scarce he'd make two!

red bull

If I won her / him in a raffle I would'nt take them home

blue5000

Heard this one yesterday in relation to a digger stuck in a bog, ''I never saw so many experienced 20-25 year olds running around''.

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/Down2earth_john/status/885004193282621441

"The problem with closed minded people is that their mouths are always open" - anonymous

Nekarsulm

Someone who visits an ill person, or visits without bringing a cake or a bottle of wine or a few sweets for the kids : "He always turns up with one arm as long as the other"

foxy farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Someone who visits an ill person, or visits without bringing a cake or a bottle of wine or a few sweets for the kids : "He always turns up with one arm as long as the other"

Or his hands hanging to him.

Lady Haywire

Took me a while to find this thread again!
Yesterday I was pulling our empty milk tanker out of the field to attach it to the quad and Dad pipes up from the road ''If you had bigger ears, you'd be as good as a donkey''

:pac:

Muckit

"Thanks Noddy" should have been the reply!

Bullocks

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Took me a while to find this thread again!
Yesterday I was pulling our empty milk tanker out of the field to attach it to the quad and Dad pipes up from the road ''If you had bigger ears, you'd be as good as a donkey''

:pac:

Or "if you had a stump of a tail you'd be a horse of a man" (or woman)!

keepalive213

a head like a busted wellington

a dose of the horn

as mean as dog ****

"mighty" is a well used word around here, for praising someone/something

Bluck mór - someone big headed

heldel00

Trawhook - as in an old flirty woman that is desperate for a man.
"She's a real trawhook."

Anyone ever hear of it before?

The Rabbi

He would be a horse of a man if he could sh1t walking.

feartuath

Fine weather recently reminded me of a saying my late father said when thirsty.

I am as dry as a salt box.

another one around here if there was a large crowd in the pub.

You couldn't draw your leg in the place.


as in you couldn't cross your legs.

Lambman

The aul mans saying here is "I'm that unlucky if Dolly Parton had triplets I'd be the **** on the bottle".

Dakota Dan

feartuath wrote: »

Fine weather recently reminded me of a saying my late father said when thirsty.

I am as dry as a salt box.

another one around here if there was a large crowd in the pub.

You couldn't draw your leg in the place.


as in you couldn't cross your legs.

Or there isn't room to fart in here.

Dakota Dan

would you look at the head on yourman and the price of turnips, I think it means that he's an ugly b@stard.

ChippingSodbury

Ugly: A face like a sunburned sh1t
Thirsty: My mouth is like the inside of an Arab's tacky (tacky=runner, for those not from Limerick!)

ganmo

i've missed this thread

FFred

Used here in South Kilkenny to describe an offspring who has inherited undesirable traits from their parents :

Scuttery cow ... scuttery calf

Snowfire

If he’d two brains, he’d be twice as thick.

mfceiling

There was that big a crowd in the pub that you couldn't have turned a sweet in your mouth.

severeoversteer

''i'll put an ass's head on ya''


''I was within an ass's roar of him''




when someone is mean (tight) ie. cavan folk:

''they'd eat their dinner in a drawer''

Lambman

At a pedigree sale years ago the auctioneer was doing his best till sell a well bred ram saying stuff like your guaranteed good lambs off this fella etc.... When an aul farmer shouts up many a good man had a **** off a son.

sandydan

severeoversteer wrote: »

''i'll put an ass's head on ya''


''I was within an ass's roar of him''




when someone is mean (tight) ie. cavan folk:

''they'd eat their dinner in a drawer''

down our way if ya didnt like some one you say
you woulnt go within an asses roar of him / her

studdlymurphy

Lambman wrote:

The aul mans saying here is "I'm that unlucky if Dolly Parton had triplets I'd be the **** on the bottle".

Or if i fell into a bucket of nipples id still come out sucking my thumb

keepalive213

He'd drink it out of a wellington ie. mad for liquor

KatyMac

OH accused me of being really 'Irish' the other day - I described a place as 'round the bend up the road'. He said I was the one round the bend:)

Ted_YNWA

KatyMac wrote: »

OH accused me of being really 'Irish' the other day - I described a place as 'round the bend up the road'. He said I was the one round the bend:)

If you get to the fork in the road, you have gone too far.

patsy_mccabe

Heard someone today refer to their false teeth as the 32 counties.

jimmy G M

A couple of locals here talking about the drought, silage yields etc, most lads short of fodder etc.

One guy say he has the same amount of grass as he had last year............ just a lot shorter.

jimini0

Don't know if it was mentioned but
"The tide wouldn't even take her/him out"
Meaning undateable

Buford T. Justice XIX

Just saw a good one today on Twitter.

I'm so busy I don't know if I found a rope or lost a horse.

Who2

I heard a lad describing someone recently and he said” she’s had more passengers than cie “

Dickie10

"serious" is a saying for being very good in areas in western Meath not to be confused with westmeath. ie "hes a serious footballer"

Dickie10

"horrid" =horrid meaning very good again mostly found in Meath espicaly north and western Meath

Dickie10

"a stones of a young lad " meaning an egit off a young lad. mostly westmeath, north offaly and south western meath region. could be all over the rest of the midlands though

charolais0153

Dickie10 wrote: »

"serious" is a saying for being very good in areas in western Meath not to be confused with westmeath. ie "hes a serious footballer"

Thought thatd be fairly common