Great sayings you remember from when you were young.

AMKC · 03-08-2023 2:59pm #1

I will start.

One I totally agree with is,

Ask not what you can do for your Country but What your Country can do for you.

03-08-2023 3:21pm

You're only a gowl.

Jim_Hodge · 03-08-2023 3:23pm

Empty vessels make most noise.

riffmongous · 03-08-2023 3:26pm

Look at the head on you and the price of turnips

riffmongous · 03-08-2023 3:27pm

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Takes one to know one

(Swish)

miamee · 03-08-2023 3:30pm

What's that got to do with the price of spuds?

Stationmaster · 03-08-2023 3:32pm

May he die roaring....

hayrabit · 03-08-2023 3:36pm

she'd mind mice at a crossroads

Jim_Hodge · 03-08-2023 3:54pm

Mad as a bag of frogs.

ELM327 · 03-08-2023 3:59pm

Is my face black? If left out of something

cj maxx · 03-08-2023 4:00pm

Get out of my class , Mr Maxx

Aglomerado · 03-08-2023 4:43pm

Hey you! With the head!

the_amazing_raisin · 03-08-2023 5:05pm

It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

Stripeyman · 03-08-2023 5:18pm

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You'd look quare without one!

ofthelord · 03-08-2023 5:27pm

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I'd a crazy old nun for a teacher in primary school in the 80s, she used to say that a lot to us. She also used to call many a kid 'a big amadán' before clattering them across the knuckles with her bata

gifted · 03-08-2023 5:32pm

A mars a day helps you work rest and play.......

waynescales1 · 03-08-2023 5:58pm

The early bird catches the worm.....

But the second mouse gets the cheese.

Brendan Bendar · 03-08-2023 6:03pm

That fcukker is so mean he’d grease the road from Cork to Dublin with a pound of butther!!

chooseusername · 03-08-2023 6:15pm

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He wouldn’t give the heat of his sh1t to the crows.

Swaine · 03-08-2023 6:20pm

Jesus, that's cheap..

Jim_Hodge · 03-08-2023 6:38pm

If your Aunty had balls she'd be your Uncle.

If brains were dynamite he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

Ger Roe · 03-08-2023 6:42pm

Geh oura tha garten!

padd b1975 · 03-08-2023 6:55pm

Now you're suckin' diesel!

03-08-2023 7:01pm

She’d rip up the floors of a bungalow looking for pipe.

Rosahane · 03-08-2023 7:12pm

"Tear away" sez she, "me mother's a dressmaker"

Subacio · 03-08-2023 7:31pm

She married twice. Second time was for the company.

Goldengirl · 03-08-2023 9:17pm

Ludramán !

Dakota Dan · 03-08-2023 9:26pm

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The brass monkey being a brass triangle on a sailing ship holding a pyramid of cannon balls, when it froze the brass contracted making the balls fall off.

Scipri0 · 03-08-2023 9:55pm

My dad used to respond to the question when asking him, "Are you alright?" then he'd reply "No I'm not alright, I'm half left"

Strumms · 03-08-2023 11:38pm

We had a teacher in the 90’s that would refer to any of us messing or misbehaving as a ‘jinnit ’….

hed be getting quite thick with us or whoever in the class then come out with…

” Yeah, typical, there is Ken there 54% only in the last test and acting the jinnit down there with Barry, ahh yeah”

he’s the only person who I ever encountered in my lifetime thus far referring to a person as a jinnit…. Which he did to us all probably regularly.. it had the opposite impact to the desired one as we’d just laugh.

he was a Dublin man, son ended up playing a handful of times for the Dubs….don’t know the teachers own background, maybe it’s a rural saying but it seems rare as anything….

another one my great uncle used to use, this time a term of endearment…’me auld segotia’… again this hasn’t it seems been in common parlance for decades …an old Romany term for brother or pal apparently..but entered the Dublinese lexicon at some juncture…