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Expressions you love

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  • 04-08-2017 5:03am
    #1
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭


    Shameless flip of the 'expressions you hate' thread.

    Most of mine are purely nostalgic (and probably rural?), things I hear from older people, which seem to be disappearing.

    'By-and-by' [later-on]
    e.g. Finish that job and we'll get the dinner by-and-by

    ''Middle of next week' [very far away, I assume]
    e.g. Finish that job or I'll throw I'll throw you into the middle of next week

    'Declare into God' [oh jaysus/ I swear]
    e.g. I was belting it down the Nenagh Road and, declare unto God, there was the Gard.

    'Got dead' [died/ was found dead/ Fuair sé bás]
    -Did you hear about Josie Hogan?
    -What?
    -She was got dead!

    What are your favourite expressions? Not necessarily common Irish expressions , but whatever you find memorable or appealing yourselves, perhaps from childhood


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    " Horse it up there, Boss! ".


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    "I'm gonna smash your back door in later"

    That one always goes down well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,572 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Shitehawk


    A sad loss to the Irish vernacular.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,937 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Put it on the long finger. (To probably, possibly get around to doing something, eventually)

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,845 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    A spurt in the hand is worth two in the bush


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Wait, Josie Hogan is dead?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Now we're sucking diesel!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    I work like a japanese beaver.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,646 ✭✭✭storker


    "All fur coat and no knickers"


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Open bar.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    I'll shove this effin pitchfork up yer hole.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    "Your dinner's in the oven love, I'm taking the kids to their granny, we'll stay the night"

    Heard it only once.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ending or breaking a sentence with "says he" or "says I". Only hear it from older generation Irish anymore.

    Also, living in London which has a much bigger Indian population. I read on another forum about how they love to play with unusual English words so I sort of engineered the situation where I could shoe-horn the word "bamboozle" into a conversation with a Sri Lankan. His face immediately broke into a huge grin as he replied "no sir, I can assure you there will be no bamboozlement here". Bless :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Ending or breaking a sentence with "says he" or "says I". Only hear it from older generation Irish anymore.

    Also, living in London which has a much bigger Indian population. I read on another forum about how they love to play with unusual English words so I sort of engineered the situation where I could shoe-horn the word "bamboozle" into a conversation with a Sri Lankan. His face immediately broke into a huge grin as he replied "no sir, I can assure you there will be no bamboozlement here". Bless :)

    I also love the "do the needfull" you hear Indians say :D

    some of my favourites
    "To throw the cat amongst the pidgeons"
    "shes fond of the fella that runs with the hens"


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    To described someone as being "goosed" when they're in an unfortunate situation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    "Go on outta that!"

    Stop talking nonsense

    "Get outta that garden!"

    I don't believe you

    Two of my favourites


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭tailgunner


    "I nearly brained myself coming down the stairs."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    tailgunner wrote: »
    "I nearly brained myself coming down the stairs."

    When I was younger my mother used to say "I'll ****ing brain you!" When I did something wrong. She never followed through thankfully.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Alright cock?

    Cookin on gas, "now she's sucking diesel" .... as the engine fires up!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,269 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Ride me sideways was another one


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,937 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I don't give a flying ****. Or I don't give a flying continental (as a variant). As in, I jolly well don't care.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭essgee268


    as usefull as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    Them cúnts are cúnts


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Mutton dressed up as lamb.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 747 ✭✭✭Belle E. Flops


    Well I declare to Moses!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,196 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Bockety
    The table is bockety, stick a book under the short leg.

    Banjaxed


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    You've got to piss with the cock you're given.


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


    "You might as well be reading a donkey his horoscope"

    You're wasting your time talking to him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Thanks love that was amazing


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  • Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Skyrimaddict


    Does the pope **** in the woods?


    Best line I have ever heard


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