Expressions you love

jca

You wouldn't find a match for her in the foundry (Waterford)

steddyeddy

The one that always got me is the expression is "that's a bit Irish isn't it?" In relation to some activity some chancer tried to get away with.

bottlebrush

Say nothin til you hear more

came down home tonight and called to see a friend up the road. met him at the hall door and he said "we will go for a spin"...

I said "I'm after driving for two hours".

"Yeah" he goes, "but the mudder is bullin' adin"

(My mother is very angry within [The house]"

passremarkable

That's cat malogen
Describing anything brutal

Pinkycharm

Stop the lights- many meanings!

Jesus take the wheel -ffs

storker

"He'd live in your ear"

"He'd say mass"

Pinkycharm

Another few favourites, I've heard in Nenagh!

What's in the cat, is in the kitten!
Tell me this and tell me no more!
He wouldn't "bate" eggs! (QuestionIng someone's fighting ability)
He wouldn't score in a brothel- heard this in a pub during a hurling match when someone missed a point.

And

Would you be well? I think it means are you serious.

Ol' Donie

Lovely hurlin'.

For anything that's good.

one my primary-school teacher used to say to certain boys who could do with a shower

"You could grow spuds in your ears"

Tom Mann Centuria

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

one my primary-school teacher used to say to certain boys who could do with a shower

"You could grow spuds in your ears"

Haha, my dad used to say that to us when we were kids. I'd forgotten that one. Thanks.

Pinkycharm

Pinkycharm wrote: »

Would you be well? I think it means are you serious.

I think that's more along the lines of, "that would be a crazy choice "

"I wouldn't ate that sh*te, wouldja be well?"

My Granny used to exclaim "well, blow me!" (not blimey) if she saw something surprising. I think it was short for "blow me down with a feather" but it always made me erupt in laughter, and she'd turn and look at me as if I was simple.

sligojoek

Pinkycharm wrote: »

Another few favourites, I've heard in Nenagh!

What's in the cat, is in the kitten!
Tell me this and tell me no more!
He wouldn't "bate" eggs! (QuestionIng someone's fighting ability)
He wouldn't score in a brothel- heard this in a pub during a hurling match when someone missed a point.

And

Would you be well? I think it means are you serious.

White was and probably still is a popular surname in Nenagh. One day I asked my father, which of the Whites was after buying a house near us.
He said, "There's more Whites in Nenagh than blacks in Africa.".

jprboy

I wouldn't do it with yours

i.e. I will NEVER have sexual relations with that woman

Mena Mitty

He hasn't hands to wipe his a*se.

He wouldn't work in a fit of Sundays.

It takes a big hammer to drive a big nail.

sligojoek

He's so unlucky, if he fell into a barrel of tits he'd come out sucking his thumb.

Tom Mann Centuria

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think that's more along the lines of, "that would be a crazy choice "

"I wouldn't ate that sh*te, wouldja be well?"

My Granny used to exclaim "well, blow me!" (not blimey) if she saw something surprising. I think it was short for "blow me down with a feather" but it always made me erupt in laughter, and she'd turn and look at me as if I was simple.

If you watch old Ealing comedies or films from the UK around that time or Norman Wisdom a few years later, you often hear "well blow me" (it is short for "well you could blow me down with a feather").

jprboy

As happy as a dog with two mickeys

spoonerhead

jprboy wrote: »

As happy as a dog with two mickeys

One of my favourites! 'Are you having a giraffe' was one I heard in London quite a lot

Tom Mann Centuria

I don't fancy yours much.

I'd rather see her/him* with no clothes on than you in your best suit or I'd rather see him/her with no clothes on than a picture of your gran in her PT kit


She looked like the back end of a bus (Les Dawson)



*delete as appropriate.

snowflaker

Get down off the cross, (we need the wood)

-Stop feeling sorry for yourself

RayM

"Every cunt and his mother" (a lot of people)

sligojoek

"I was knee-deep in clunge"
(There was an abundance of lascivious females)

"Ne'er (pronounced nare) is still surprisingly common...
-"Have you ne'er a dog?" (Do you have no dog?)
-"Ne'er a one" (No, none)

I like 'yousir' (you, sir) too
"Well yousir" (Good day, my friend)

sligojoek wrote: »

White was and probably still is a popular surname in Nenagh.

Did you say 'Nenagh' or 'Nayna' growing up?

I remember when I started to read and write, wondering why 'Nenagh Milk' wasn't spelled 'Nayna Milk'. Most adults around home still say 'Nayna'.

jprboy

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Did you say 'Nenagh' or 'Nayna' growing up?

I remember when I started to read and write, wondering why 'Nenagh Milk' wasn't spelled 'Nayna Milk'. Most adults around home still say 'Nayna'.

Nenagh in our house anyway but a lot of the older generations would have used Naynagh.

Which reminds me, the Naynagh Show is on this coming Monday, missed it for the last few years due to holidays.

jprboy

jprboy wrote: »

Nenagh in our house anyway but a lot of the older generations would have used Naynagh.

Which reminds me, the Naynagh Show is on this coming Monday, missed it for the last few years due to holidays.

I'll be there!

There should be a Boards Naynagh-Show Beers

sligojoek

I still call it Nayna when talking to Nayna people. . I was down a few weeks ago and noticed a lot of people still saying it. Having said that most of the people I was with were my age group and older.

sligojoek

I wasn't at that show since I was about 15. Is anyone going to that music festival the week after. I was half thinking of going down

Witchie

Footerin (tinkering or feckin around )

Good caddie/cuttie (good boy/girl)

Arghus

To be honest with ya.

To be totally honest with ya.

RayM

"Aw, why?"

"That's the why"

rebel.ranter

He who dips his wick must pay for the oil.

9 women and one month doesn't make a baby.

Failure is a bruise not a tattoo.

It's all very well until someone loses an eye.

You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

The hair of the dog that bit me.

Old yawn. (Ol' yawn)

If it was raining soup I would have a fork.

foxy farmer

Someone awkward trying to tackle something.
He was like a cat trying to ride a matchbox .

Well you're as good and your hair is as curly.

"Thats the crack now " says she with one leg up on the table.

If a man is told that his flap is open a good response is
The ditch is bad but the baysht(beast) is quiet.

Baron Kurtz

There was a bit of a shine off him!

A friend's mother commenting on a person with a few too many drinks on them.

DopeTech

I will in me bleedin hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdXJrGr1iM

Bigus

Bike stolen,


And there it Was,,,,,,,,,,,GONE

Or how to confuse a non national , by saying

Sure they all , do , do that , don't they though,

(Day, do, do dat,don't day doe.)

Conor Bourke

osarusan wrote: »

Shitehawk


A sad loss to the Irish vernacular.

As long as there's breath in my lungs, that one won't die out. Tremendous word.

kupus

He'd mind mice at a crossroads....

.....meaning a person who is as tight as a ducks arse.

Widdershins

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

No point spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar.

Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.

ROS123

it was filled 'up to the boults'
Very full

He could peel oranges in his pocket
A mean person

Widdershins

Every old cripple has his own way of walking. I think it means everyone has their own way of getting by.

Paddy Cow

If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me.

i'll give you something to cry about....

Schwanz

Ah well....

Paddy Cow

The wren, the wren, the king of all birds
St Stephen's day was caught in the furze
Up with the kettle and down with the pan
Will you give me a penny to bury the wren?
If you haven't a penny a ha'penny will do
If you haven't a ha'penny, God bless you.

I chased the wren from rock to rock
I chased him into a public shop
I dipped his nose in a bottle of beer and
I wish you all a Happy New Year

Myself and my sister used to do "The Wren" years ago on St Stephens day and this was what we said. I don't think it's done anymore.

When your telling your friends you were out last night and they ask were ya with anyone. You say yeah and then one of them asks...

"Did you throw a length into her.?"

Best expression I ever heard!

Schwanz

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"Did you throw a length into her.?"

:D:D:D

riffmongous

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

"I was knee-deep in clunge"
(There was an abundance of lascivious females)

"Ne'er (pronounced nare) is still surprisingly common...
-"Have you ne'er a dog?" (Do you have no dog?)

Related to this one, e'er, no idea how to spell it, pronounced air anyway
"Have you air a dog?"
Anyone else no it and what it actually means?

"How's she cuttin'?" Is also probably my favourite Irish phrase, I still try to use it as much as possible to confuse people

glynf

Knew a Clare lad years ago and his favourite one was ‘Wouldn't get up on her to get over a wall’, the reality was that the ‘she’ in question wouldn't ride him into battle.

7 Seconds...

There's no flies on her/him and if there is they're paying rent.

Paddy Cow

riffmongous wrote: »

Related to this one, e'er, no idea how to spell it, pronounced air anyway
"Have you air a dog?"
Anyone else no it and what it actually means?

"How's she cuttin'?" Is also probably my favourite Irish phrase, I still try to use it as much as possible to confuse people

Like a lawnmower :pac:

Stan27

Wild as a badgers arse.

I.e. That person is wild