Phrases and the likes you never hear outside Ireland

.. or at least if you do it likely originally came from Ireland 😂

i remember the aul lad once asking me if I had any news, I said no all quiet to which he replied “divil the bit then” apparently a phrase he picked up from someone he knew as a chap himself. I’m struggling to think of others right now but there’s some fine phrases and the likes that came of this country, scarlet for ye is another favourite!

Esel

Brits Out!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118286191#Comment_118286191

Brits out has been uttered in over 75% of the world at some stage

Archeron

I will yeah.

Meaning not a fukcing hope.

blackbox

Hot press

play4fun1

smoke a fag

tayto lover

How’s she cutting?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118286664#Comment_118286664

im gonna stop you there.

that’s an English word.

AckwelFoley

'Ah yea, deadly"

"Ah, no I'm grand"

"The state of you"

"I'm shook"

"I'm going for a slash"

"Pulling the flute off himself"

"She's some beour".

Be right back

What's the craic?

pgj2015

sound out.

HeidiHeidi

Yerra

Mar dhea

You'll meet yourself coming back

mgbgt1978

Your Ma !!

gormdubhgorm

Come're and I hit ya.

Lashing Rain

Yer Man / Yer Wan

Bansjaxed

Gombeen

It's yourself

Horse into it

The head on him/her

DJB030244

Years ago my granny asked the Spanish student staying with us after he had walked home from town -“are your legs Jaded “ I can still see the look of puzzlement on his face

thesandeman

Loada bollocks.

Howaya now?

Gorteen

Arra shtop!

Wishbone Ash

Yoke

Eejit

Wibbs

"I'm after doing something". "I'm only after breaking the cup". IIRC that's a tense(?) that comes from the Irish that was translated into English.

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118288798#Comment_118288798

There's no actual verb in Irish for 'to have'. Irish uses prepositional pronouns like 'agam/agat/aige/aici' to show that you have something, so to say "I have done something", you say "I am after doing it" in Irish, which transferred into Hiberno-English. In your example, there is no direct translation for "I have broken the cup" so it's "I'm after breaking the cup".

whisky_galore

Gowlbag.

Car99

The word Ye. In my experience no place outside of ireland uses that word as a plural of you except newfoundland but that's basically Ireland anyways.

thehairygrape

Tá an áthas orm an corn seo a ghlacadh.

hunter2000

I’d lick the shiit out of her knickers.

snowstorm445

Giving out meaning to complain, had no idea it was an Irish phrase until recently.

Also referring to a third person possessively as "your fella/man/wan", really confusing to non-Irish ears.

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289055#Comment_118289055

A good part of the population of Newfoundland can trace their ancestry back to the South East of Ireland. https://waterford.fyi/did-you-know-that-the-majority-of-irish-newfoundlanders-came-from-waterford-kilkenny-and-wexford/

AckwelFoley

"He's a dacent cnut"

Say that to a yank and watch them recoil in horror

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289107#Comment_118289107

In Irish, to scold somebody is "tabhair amach do", literally "give out to".

Trigger Happy

Galavanting...not an irish word but I have never heard it used outside of ireland...or by anyone under 80.

thehairygrape

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289030#Comment_118289030

gowl is an interesting one. Used that word years ago in company and an old fella nearly had a heart attack. He whispered that it was a term for a woman’s private parts where he came from (East Cork) and considered very rude. Not sure if he was having me on, but he did seem quite shocked.

Supercell

Story/whats the story/story bud?

Grand so.

Banjaxed/fluthered

You langer!

Fattybojangles

Amin't

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118286664#Comment_118286664

Also used in the USA. Although in a more lethal context.

Capt'n Midnight

Irish "come here till I tell ya"

Confused non-Irish "but I am already here ?"

Not sure if they are uniquely Irish but I have never heard outside ireland:

1) He/She is a good skin

and

2) Asking and answering your own question in one sentence "You going out tonight, you are?" "You wanna have a beer, you will?"

monseiur

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289972#Comment_118289972

There's a village in Tipperary called gowl na callaigh (sp?) which I'm told translates to 'the private parts of a hag' or where the two legs of a hag meets - take your pick !!

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289972#Comment_118289972

It comes from the Irish 'gabhal' - fork or crotch https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/gabhal

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289030#Comment_118289030

Geebag.

sucking diesel

Grand (as in I am, it’s.)

Gregor Samsa

"Two jambons, please."

Or at least if you did utter it outside of Ireland, you wouldn't get a couple of delicious hot pastry envelopes bursting with gooey cheese and ham bits. You'd just get the ham, and a lesson in correct pronunciation.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118289972#Comment_118289972

I had heard an East Cork-ism "bucket of piss", strangely enough a complimentary phrase, meaning someone who is the life and soul of a party.

Gregor Samsa

sucking diesel

Funny thing about sucking diesel is that the only time I ever actually heard it used out in the wild was in the middle of nowhere in Morocco. I was on a desert safari day-trip thing with a load of others from the hotel I was staying in, who all happened to be Irish auld-wans. We stopped for lunch in some Saharan oasis, and there were a traditional Berber band playing while we ate. Every now and then they'd suddenly stop, and the leader would exclaim "SUCKIN' DIESEL!" and all the auld-wans would piss themselves laughing. Obviously they'd learned a "local phrase" for every nationality that came their way to liberate the tips. Seemed to work too.

Gregor Samsa

Anywhere else, saying a kid was "bold" would be a compliment on their courage.

dxhound2005

Also according to every dictionary Rude, Misbehaved, Impudent.

silliussoddius

Your man

matt.v

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118288798#Comment_118288798

After Rachel Blackmore won the grand national this year she said “I just can’t believe I’m after winning" but because the brits didn't really get it she was quoted in the guardian as saying “I just can’t believe I’m [talking] after winning".

Cool little hangover from Gaeilge, theres a really interesting book out there called "English as we speak it in Ireland" about how the Irish language heavily influences our syntax to this day

blackvalley

Keep her lit

Stall the digger.

silliussoddius

I do or I be

Spanish Eyes

Fekkin eejit

Gobshite

Stevenzes Day

Economics101

Every second day (literally gach dara la) instead of "every other day".

Wishbone Ash

'Relation' (for a relative). I don't think I've ever heard it anywhere else.

'Thrun' (instead of 'threw'). He thrun it out the window. Generally only heard in Dublin.