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Old phrases that you want to resurrect.

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    #62
    bicardi19
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭bicardi19


    Someone asks :"wheres X gone"
    Reply: "is my face red?"
    Someone: "No why"
    Reply: "Theyre not up my arse then"
    havent heard that one in years. ah the memories!!


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    #63
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    "Bombin' it" meaning running really fast, e.g. "I was bombin' it away from the shades."

    "Funt" meaning "kick", as in "I gave him a funt up the hole."


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    #64
    Hamiltonion
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭Hamiltonion


    yer wan has a face on er loike a bag of chisels


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    #65
    Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    You and what army.


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    #66
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    that's swell....i wish it was 1949 so we could use that:D


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    #67
    JackieRyan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭JackieRyan


    You,re comming to the goats house looking for wool
    (when you are looking for money from parents)


    or
    you can,t get blood out of a stone


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    #68
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Hey Nonny Nonny

    Rather popular back in Shakespearian times. Had a brief revival after the film Much a do about Nothing.Really surprised it has died out :pac:


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    #69
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    ya cute whore
    or
    ya whores boot
    or
    ya whores boil

    whores had some great ones


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    #70
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    "I work as a..."

    Dems were the days!


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    #71
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    That's a load of me trousers.


    He's a horse of a man but he can't shyte walking.


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    #72
    magenta73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭magenta73


    "what's on a sober man's mind is on a drunken man's lips".......................................................................................



    so when I ask the husband (sober) does my a** look big in this, and he says yes, and thinks this is real funny, and then the same night after a few drinks he then say's "ya know I was only messin with ya, your a** isnt big at all" ????????????? confusing


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    #73
    Edgedinblue
    Registered Users Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Edgedinblue


    Londyn Grumpy Semicircle wrote: »
    "And so's your face"

    haha! i use that one on a daily basis!!:D

    and as for the whole "shift" thing, was glad to see that gone. until i moved to galway last year. its like a bad blast from the past! hate the word shift for kissing.


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    #74
    footloose jen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭footloose jen


    bicardi19 wrote: »
    Someone asks :"wheres X gone"
    Reply: "is my face red?"
    Someone: "No why"
    Reply: "Theyre not up my arse then"
    havent heard that one in years. ah the memories!!


    lol :D:P:)


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    #75
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    old phrase to resurrect??


    "YO..!".. followed my extending your right hand out and then aiming left with palm facing towards you.


    fuk that was cool ten years ago


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    #76
    footloose jen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭footloose jen


    Deleted User wrote: »
    old phrase to resurrect??


    "YO..!".. followed my extending your right hand out and then aiming left with palm facing towards you.


    fuk that was cool ten years ago

    got any more?????


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    #77
    iamthemanwork
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭iamthemanwork


    When somebody is financially strapped---

    He hasnt got a pot to pi** in


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    #78
    footloose jen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭footloose jen


    my da has one he still uses's to describe the "teenagers" ive always found funny:D "those yahoo's":)


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    #79
    footloose jen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭footloose jen


    another one of my da's :)

    eat your crusts it'll put hairs on your chest and i come from a family of mostly girls wats that all about lol :o


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    #80
    baglady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭baglady


    "whateverrrrrrrrrrrrrr" accompanied by you making the shape of a W with your thumbs and 1st fingers, you know, Clueless style!

    wait though, wouldn't want that resurrected!!


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    #81
    dead air
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭dead air


    Stop the lights!


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    #82
    baglady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭baglady


    dead air wrote: »
    Stop the lights!


    or s(h)tall the ball!


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    #83
    bubski
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭bubski


    yer mans a skrew

    as in good looking. All I can remember is being very confused when someone said this the first time. Dont know how popular the term was?


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    #84
    CUCINA
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭CUCINA


    "As sick as ten hospitals"

    He thinks he's the bee's knees and the cat's pyjamas!"

    "Get up the yard, there's a smell of Benji off ya"

    "Get ouwa that garden!"


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    #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Make my dinner bitch.


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    #86
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    "He took a reddener" or " I'm scarlet for ya" and my personal favourite that has become a rarity these days...Yore Ma!

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #87
    concussion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭concussion


    Don't make a three-act play out of it

    All hat and no knickers

    Sham


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    #88
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    My (since passed) Grandad used to always say "Ya look well, are ya sick?"
    Always got a laugh out of it :D


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    #89
    FrostyJack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭FrostyJack


    Tip red..... god said.

    Tip black..... can't take it back


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    #90
    Linku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Linku


    baglady wrote: »
    "whateverrrrrrrrrrrrrr" accompanied by you making the shape of a W with your thumbs and 1st fingers, you know, Clueless style!

    wait though, wouldn't want that resurrected!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_girl#Sociolect

    I use about half of these including bitchin', fer shur, and totally... I have been told I speak like a Valley girl on occasion though.
    Now that you've brought this up I'm going to give someone a bitchin' "AS IF!" tomorrow


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    #91
    Thoie
    Registered Users Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    She'd mind mice at the crossroads.

    Does he think I came up the river on a bike?

    What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

    I'd wish the curse of the seven snotty orphans on yer man.

    That little sheevra.


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