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  • Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭wizardman


    Rotten with the poke

    Translation: loads of money, wealthy etc

    "See him he's rotten with the poke"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,949 ✭✭✭garra


    A sniper wouldn't take her out

    He has a neck like a jockeys boll0x

    I've seen better legs hangin out of a bird's nest

    He hasn't a rashers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    It's not exactly a well established phrase, but the "do, do" people say from time to time really is endearing.

    Not a classic example, but in this Pingu video at 1:40.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Had forgotten tgis one but reading the fabulous Ross O Carroll Kelly today reminded me:

    That will really snap her crayons for her.


    Dying laughin!


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Heard a lad on Liveline today giving out about lack of wheelchair facilities in modern buildings.

    "Architects and engineers have too much education and not enough common sense."


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  • Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Had forgotten tgis one but reading the fabulous Ross O Carroll Kelly today reminded me:

    That will really snap her crayons for her.


    Dying laughin!

    I've read a good few f them but never came across this. Is it something that will make her angry?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭ZV Yoda


    When I was a kid, if my dad sent me to the shop for something, he’d say “don’t be there till you’re back... and if you fall, don’t wait to pick yourself up”. In other words - hurry up.

    “He/she wouldn’t get a wave at Dollymount” - I.e, not exactly a good looking person.

    “Marry a man with a short cough and long pockets” - I.e, marry a rich man who’s close to death.

    “He/she wouldn’t spend Christmas” - they’re stingy

    “Never mind the cat... I wouldn’t put the light out on a night like that” - bad weather outside.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in that rain.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    What was the one when you were a kid where if you stick you tongue out and it’s black you’re lying

    Anyone remember?


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    That fella is the two ends of a mule's tool.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40 80sChild


    The tide wouldn't take her out (plain girl)
    As plain as a Marietta biscuit (plain girl)

    Meet yourself coming back (busy person)
    Like a blue arsed fly (busy person)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    The neck!!!



    I love this one


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    She's been slammed more times than a taxi door...


  • Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭Undividual


    Tight as 2 coats of paint.

    Wouldn't spend Christmas.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Bus wouldn’t stop for that


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭monseiur


    sligojoek wrote: »
    You wouldn't put a milk bottle out in that rain.

    Another version is '' Sure you wouldn't put the wife out never mind the dog'':D


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,886 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    What was the one when you were a kid where if you stick you tongue out and it’s black you’re lying

    Anyone remember?
    Stick out your tongue and i’ll see if you’re lying.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    nice one I heard the other day

    I'll bate ya good lookin

    a threat and an insult all in one, like it :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭Thepillowman


    monseiur wrote: »
    Another version is '' Sure you wouldn't put the wife out never mind the dog'':D

    Around here "it was raining so hard you wouldn't put a fox out of a hen house"


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭jluv


    My friend's mother used to say when she was mad.."if I catch you I wont leave the priests share on ya"
    (Not enough for the priest to annoint")


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    sligojoek wrote: »
    I've read a good few f them but never came across this. Is it something that will make her angry?

    Absolutely. You are colouring in in your little child bubble and something is said hat so enrages you you clasp your crayons in your hands until they snap! Love it! I DIMLY remember it from years ago - a real awl ones saying.

    Along with ' she's all fur coat and no knickers' what a putdown!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,231 ✭✭✭Hercule Poirot


    He's so useless he couldn't find his arse with both hands!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭NSAman


    She's a Thrush!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Up Donegal


    If they had brains, they would be dangerous.


  • Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭Ms. Captain M


    She'd make the sausages stand up on the pan


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,886 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    She'd give a snowman a horn.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users Posts: 16,822 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    He who hesitates
    waits.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    that lad would be out of his depth in a puddle

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    "Bull cows agin a hill for I wud"


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "A wet man has no fear of the rain"

    ~ Russian proverb


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