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Ah jaysus I was elephants last night :s

  • 02-06-2014 10:53am
    #1
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭


    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    You are an elephant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZQnhvf49o


  • #3
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    Is that some kind of irony?

    An elephant never forgets, but I'd say most drunk people do!


  • #4
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    Yore Ma..


  • #5
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)


  • #6
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Piriz wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)

    You mean enall, My favourite would be ''ask the butt end of me b0llox'' or 'yeah ask your sister''..


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  • #7
    MortGoldman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭MortGoldman


    I was utterly gazeboed!


  • #8
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    D4?


  • #9
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    not yet wrote: »
    You mean enall, My favourite would be ''ask the butt end of me b0llox'' or 'yeah ask your sister''..

    no, i mean an' all.


  • #10
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    kneemos wrote: »
    D4?

    Nooooo! That would be Dublin city expression. Although I have heard it in Dunlaoghaire sometimes.


  • #11
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Is "Elephants" common in Dublin? Or recently new?


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  • #12
    csallmighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    Scuttered


  • #13
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Piriz


    i think the best expressions ever is:

    your man & your one..


  • #14
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?


    Gob****e is a good one. Like that time I said "Did you hear that drunken gob****e? Said he was elephants?"


  • #15
    Sirsok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Sirsok


    I was absolutely fiber glassed windowed....see you could use any time in Ireland to sufficiently describe how drunk you were....

    Try it....

    I was so brown bread last night,
    I was a drunk as a monkey on a pogo stick.....


  • #16
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    'but'

    I think it sounds funny when it's tacked onto the end of a sentence but.


  • #17
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    MarkR wrote: »
    Gob****e is a good one. Like that time I said "Did you hear that drunken gob****e? Said he was elephants?"

    Well in fairness I said it sober.


  • #18
    Karede
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Karede


    ah "elephants" is around years. It comes from the cockney rhyming slang elephants trunk = drunk.


  • #19
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    'I may as well be looking up a ducks hole.'

    When you have no idea what your at.


  • #20
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I was langers.


  • #21
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Karede wrote: »
    ah "elephants" is around years. It comes from the cockney rhyming slang elephants trunk = drunk.

    Ah cool!. Thanks I always wondered where that came from.


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  • #22
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    As fun and all as folk etymologies are, I prefer this definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=elephant

    Actually, that's awful! haha :)


  • #23
    droidman123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,547 ✭✭✭droidman123


    Gee eyed : )


  • #24
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Another Dublin one is "that's a right how's your father".


  • #25
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    As black as Christmas.


  • #26
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    As black as Christmas.

    I thought it was as gay as christmas?


  • #27
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    "Fck off you culchie priiiick!" .......that's the one I get told most anyway :)


  • #28
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Another Dublin one is "that's a right how's your father".


    Again, not a Dublin expression. You also seem to be mixing up "A right how do you do" and "how's your father", which have very different meanings.


  • #29
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Piriz wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)

    Usually a Northside thing "anall"

    If you drive on M50 towards the Airport you will see a sign for Ballymun an Naul !


  • #30
    robbie67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭robbie67


    Twisted


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  • #31
    nikpmup
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  • #32
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    C*ntified


  • #33
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Again, not a Dublin expression. You also seem to be mixing up "A right how do you do" and "how's your father", which have very different meanings.

    Well the one I grew up with was "that's a right how's your father" or "I gave your one a right how's your father last night".


  • #34
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    I was Diageo'd


  • #35
    DenMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Quantified! :D


  • #36
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Buckled, pissed, plastered, mangled, out of me face, stocious, Bullitt proof.


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  • #37
    Davei141
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    Konyed.


  • #38
    Butterface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    I was fluthered!


  • #39
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    Sorry to disillusion you but that's used all over the country. As are most expressions Dubliners think are unique to Dublin. I think they don't get around enough to lose the parochial attitude.


  • #40
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    catallus wrote: »
    Is "Elephants" common in Dublin? Or recently new?

    They've been in dublin zoo years.


  • #41
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    dodderangler wrote: »
    They've been in dublin zoo years.

    Quite a few in Coppers too


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  • #42
    nxbyveromdwjpg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭nxbyveromdwjpg


    umop.episdn wrote: »
    Quite a few in Coppers too

    They're usually country imports though


  • #43
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    I was locked...:)


  • #44
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I was melodeoned.

    Pronounced mel-ow-jind


  • #45
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    All n anyways


  • #46
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    anncoates wrote: »
    I was melodeoned.

    Pronounced mel-ow-jind

    That's cat melodeoned


  • #47
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Plum Tuckered Out.


  • #48
    Meangadh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    Three sheets to the wind
    A bit on the Kildare side
    Baloobas


  • #49
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Ah cool!. Thanks I always wondered where that came from.

    It is an old Dublin expression but afaik its nothing to do with elephants trunk :confused:
    It would have been used when someone was waaayyy past drunk, so much so that they would see the "pink elephants" ie hallucinations from alcohol


  • #50
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Lakes...as in 'I was lakes last night lads, completely lakes'.


  • #51
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    Meangadh wrote: »
    Three sheets to the wind
    A bit on the Kildare side
    Baloobas

    3 sheets is a nautical term,
    Baloobas is slang for breasts, but never heard the kildare one before


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