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Irish expressions you dont hear any more

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    #92
    stmol32
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32


    I got back from shopping the other day and forgot the milk so I sent a youngone of mine "on a message".
    I may as well have been speaking Latvian to her.


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    #93
    emzolita
    Registered Users Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭emzolita


    Rapid, pronounced "rapih", meaning, something was great.

    This is a great thread.


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    #94
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,352 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Get out the garden


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    #95
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,352 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    Your as thick as pig ****e in a bottle.


    Your standing there like a lighthouse in a bog


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    #96
    Auntie Psychotic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Auntie Psychotic


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    Swamp Donkey

    CmeretometillItellyou

    The poor cratur.

    Janymack!

    Have ye any yokes?

    I got the job.

    Sodastream's gas is empty!

    The State he got himself into. Isn't it a fright to Christ?

    I wasn't expecting you at all until tomorrow. Just as well I had a sliced pan defrosting.

    You obviously don't spend alot of time in Limerick!

    "Half 6 and not a child in the house washed!"


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    #97
    graineog
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭graineog


    your friendly bank


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    #98
    plaiboi
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭plaiboi


    These are ones I haven't heard for a while.

    She's a flowery cu*t,

    Sleeveen,

    Ah I was only lettin on,

    Grushy,

    He's a simpleton,

    Gollier,

    I amn't,

    I robbed the bus seat for me sulky,

    Fiver 088 credit please,

    d'ye want a straightener do ye!!

    I'm up for work in the morning.


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    #99
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I haven't heard 'As the Fella Says' in a long time.

    There's one phrase which I believe originated and was exclusively used in Roscrea Tipperary. It was 'a bit of Jonic', for eg Are you up for a bit of Jonic? It means craic or a good time. Sadly it's not used by the majority in the town anymore, the old ways are gone.


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    #100
    starviewadams
    Registered Users Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Abi wrote: »
    "Crease"

    As in "I'll bleedin' crease ye". Popular amongst Irish mothers in the 80's.

    Crease is still quite popular with wanker sergeants in the Defence Forces.

    As in ''if he's asleep on gate duty I'll fúckin crease him.''


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    #101
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Ah haaaayor leeri bleedin ouuuuu


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    #102
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,039 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Me arse in parsley.

    Reverse that and it'll strike. [Prequel: Have ye a match? Yeah, your arse and my face. ]

    Both of the above possibly not Guaranteed Irish.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #103
    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Howya horsebox?


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    #104
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    i parked in Roches Stores car Park

    fetching the messages from the VG


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    #105
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,395 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    "Help the Halloween Party"


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    #106
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,972 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    He has no chit nor child

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #107
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    A bit racist I know but I remember ****** brown being used to describe the colour of a garment.


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    #108
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Your ass is grass - some serious threat I never quite worked out

    A three quarter - simpleton


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    #109
    Allyall
    Registered Users Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Your ass is grass..
    ... And i'm the lawnmower.

    Penny for the babbie.

    Nowadays they just hand you a note.


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    #110
    Maudi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    TheBody wrote: »
    Be the hokey.
    be the hokey!! mine made the list!! i use that one all the time.


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    #111
    DoneDL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭DoneDL


    Couldn`t give a flying f**k


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    #112
    jojobeans
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭jojobeans


    emzolita wrote: »
    Rapid, pronounced "rapih", meaning, something was great.

    This is a great thread.

    "whopper" and "deadly" other variations lol,

    anyone remember" go f**ck up a lampost" i always thougt that was a mad one when i heard it.(",)


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    #113
    ROS123
    Registered Users Posts: 428 ✭✭ROS123


    Forninst. Close to, beside

    Up to the boults (bolts) fill it up as far as it will go....


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    #114
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Crawthumper


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    #115
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    I'll cut the arsé of ya.


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    #116
    Jonny1384
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭Jonny1384


    "Stall the ball"


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    #117
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    ROS123 wrote: »
    Forninst. Close to, beside

    Up to the boults (bolts) fill it up as far as it will go....

    I always understood fornninst to mean in front of [you]?


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    #118
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    Full to the gunnels!


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    #119
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Who's taking the horse to France?


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    #120
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,627 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    "Black" as in "packed" - for obvious reasons, only used by the
    more senior members of society these days.

    Whist

    "gift" was a term for "cool" my age group used as 9/10 year old lads - anyone else remember it?

    "you'd be mad not to get on the property ladder"

    "Soft Landing"

    "Sure the boom will go on forever"


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    #121
    Best username ever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 352 ✭✭Best username ever


    ezekel wrote: »
    "I could'nt give a continental bollix"

    That's still used in my workplace, well a variation of it anyway.

    " He doesn't give a continental flying Fúck"


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