Terms and phrases that came and went...

Bigus

Mostly from the TV but everybody in Dublin said these phrases from the times when everybody saw the same tv on the same night , and talked about it in work the following day .

Giz a job, ......

Loadsa money


That's a grand cake Nora .... tom reardon gateaux advert

And may your god go with you .... dave Allen

You are awful but I like you .... dick emery in drag

Oooh Bettyeeee , frank spencer

I saw your solara outside the VD clinic (ad for Talbot car)

''Tis a quare name but great stuff " a radio advert for farmers

Shut that door ..Larry Grayson

Alright my love and
Didn't he do well .. Bruce Forsyth

Oldtree

"I'll have an E please Bob."

"Gizza job" boys from the black stuff??? Isn't it?

foxy farmer

To whom it concerns it's the late late show and here's your host Gay Byrne.

branie2

I do not believe you wanted to do that!

jimbobaloobob

Not sure if they are gone yet:

Kicking the can down the road

Everyone put their shoulder to the wheel

Gave it 110%

lmimmfn

We've turned a corner
In the national interest

GrumpyMe

"We've taken the hard decisions..."

Lorelli!

Im going to meet a man about a dog

AndyBoBandy

Let’s get the wagons in a circle

filbert the fox

Oldtree wrote: »

"I'll have an E please Bob."

"Gizza job" boys from the black stuff??? Isn't it?

I'm old enough to remember when it was just called "The Black Stuff"

the Boys came later

filbert the fox

Did ya see Today Tonight last night?

branie2

Family Album

branie2

Why so serious?!

Lorelli!

In a jocker - which I'm currently in now after being up all night with a vomiting bug ffs

whisky_galore

'Gay' in the sense of bright, cheery.

Came across an old newspaper article on CIE decorating Dublin's main rail stations...'CIE go gay for Christmas.'

bonzodog2

'Green shoots' was annoying for a while

branie2

Water charges, a phrase that definitely won't be missed.

Sephiroth_dude

"Pull like a dog"

branie2

This could look like something from my old "hobby", but here it is:

Playtex Cross Your Heart.

HonalD

Poxy

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Do people still say 'doss'?

branie2

BC and AD, now replaced by the more PC BCE and CE

fancy pigeon

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The term shift declined and then had a major comeback.

"Heyor, will ya meet me friend over there hai..."

The opening one liner in any culchie disco back in the day

branie2

Sweet Jehovah!

Something Gerry Ryan used to say.

branie2

I am not a crook.

filbert the fox

Mature reflection



Terms of endearment:

Sap

Dose

Ginnit

Loudramaun

Thick (noun) as in you're a Thick!

Dense

Edward M

If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.

Lorelli!

My granda use to say for example if you went out without your coat on or something "you'l die the death of a thousand dogs out there"

Esel

Housewarming party.

storker

"We've turned the corner" very recent and may not count is it was only really used by government ministers.

"Getting a shift"

My parents' generation had some wonderful expressions which you hear only rarely now...

"A bit of a want..." (Referring to an unspecified mild learning disability - or just someone who makes weird choices or decisions, often followed by "...God love him.")
"A bit of a consequence" (describing someone who is a full of themselves)
"Like a snot on a bramble" (describing a precarious position.)