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Have you any sayings from your area?

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  • #32
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    If you want the winter to pass quick, buy dear ceant land


  • #33
    HenryHill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 173 ✭✭HenryHill


    Any yokes bud ?


  • #34
    b0gg3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭b0gg3r


    My grandmother says "divil a better since leather arse died". It's praise when we do something well.

    No feckin' clue what it means though.


  • #35
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Summer wind wrote: »
    I see where your coming from but no I'm not from Cavan:) I'm from Limerick.

    I never met a mean Cavanman in my life. Salt of the earth they are.
    I'm from Louth by the way.

    Here's my quote -

    "From Carrickmacross to Crossmaglen there are more rogues than honest men".


  • #36
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    grandmother used to say ''there's a want in her''

    I understand it to mean '' she's lacking something in her life'' like a criticism. Someone who seeks attention to fill a void.

    ''listeners never hear good of themselves''

    ''face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle''


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  • #37
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,226 ✭✭✭gifted


    me_irl wrote: »
    Your only a bollocks what?

    A Bollix.....


  • #38
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    She's like a brillo pad, she'd shift anything.

    I'm as busy as a Bosnian brick layer.

    I'm as sick as a giraffe with a stiff neck.


  • #39
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    If i had a garden full of mickeys, I wouldn't let her look over the wall.


  • #40
    JMF240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭JMF240


    He's as tight as a chicken's arse. 
    (money-wise)


  • #41
    petrolcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭petrolcan


    Steesh, narty sham.


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  • #42
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    petrolcan wrote: »
    Steesh, narty sham.

    Cant/Shelta, Polish or just typo(s)?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #43
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    If the need arises to 'let one rip' whilst in company, one is required to excuse oneself with the words "That's the cabbage".*



    *Rural Mayo area.


  • #44
    Joe Hill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭Joe Hill


    Wheres me bugs bunny?

    Coolock slang for where's me money.

    Also

    Bangers and beans .... jeans


  • #45
    Clampdown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Clampdown


    podgemonster wrote: »
    I've always been fond of this one...

    "I'd eat a mile of shíte just to kiss the exhaust pipe of the van that brings her dirty knickers to the launderette."

    meaning the lady in question is quite attractive.

    I find these sayings, and the myriad variations, very tired and unfunny at this stage. And they're not specific to an area anyway they got popular on the internet.


  • #46
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Clampdown wrote: »
    I find these sayings, and the myriad variations, very tired and unfunny at this stage. And they're not specific to an area anyway they got popular on the internet.

    Totally agree.


  • #47
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Clampdown wrote: »
    I find these sayings, and the myriad variations, very tired and unfunny at this stage. And they're not specific to an area anyway they got popular on the internet.

    Sorry for bursting your ten thousand bubbles. Take a bath.

    OT: How come my dog don't bark when you come around?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #48
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    Traffic is cat! (Traffic's bad)
    She's pure cat (Terrible)
    You're looking horrid well
    I've a head like a melted welly (hungover)
    Now you're suckin' diesel (doing well)


  • #49
    LCD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭LCD


    My mother would say after a row with your significant other "Is it all love in a bucket again?"

    No idea what it means! She is from Cavan


  • #50
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Greet people with "Hummel, Hummel"
    and they reply "Mors, Mors"


  • #51
    Ciaran_B
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    "Little kickers wear big knickers."

    Don't know what it means.


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  • #52
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,819 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    "There's no nature in that fella" ... meaning he's a bollix. (East Clare)


  • #53
    scopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭scopper


    Let's go, let's go to the Glenabbey show!

    Meaning something like let's get going.


  • #54
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,885 ✭✭✭Allinall


    scopper wrote: »
    Let's go, let's go to the Glenabbey show!

    Meaning something like let's get going.

    It's

    "Lets go with the Glenabbey Show".

    Phrase from the time RTE did sponsored radio programs during the day.


  • #55
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    In my town everybody greets each other by saying "The song of the lark is a sweet today, but she must be wary of the long winter ahead". To which you must reply "The lark is wise, but the sparrow is foolish". Then you shake hands and be on your way


  • #56
    Running Balance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Running Balance


    I rem when i was school the term to use for anyone you didnt like was: gowl!!


  • #57
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    Back in the 90s in school you'd call someone a 'rehab', another word for spa.


  • #58
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Describing extreme meaness:

    "He's so mean he only cries out of the one eye."

    "He's so mean he counts his money in front of the mirror." (In case he cheats himself :P)

    General laziness:

    "He's as useless as tits on a fish."

    "When everyone is doing nothing he's doing less."

    "He's a useless as a one legged man in an arse-kicking contest."

    "He'd sicken the pigs" - general disgusting fecker


  • #59
    Riva10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Riva10


    I'am not really lucky. If I fell into a bucket of tits I'd come out sucking me thumb. (Cork)


  • #60
    Riva10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Riva10


    Allinall wrote: »
    It's

    "Lets go with the Glenabbey Show".

    Phrase from the time RTE did sponsored radio programs during the day.
    I remember that. We're showing our age :eek:


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  • #61
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Summer wind wrote: »

    She wouldn't run too well on soft ground
    Meaning: she's very fat.

    Nice!


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