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Nice turn of phrase you've heard

  • 29-06-2019 06:08PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭


    Have you any clever/funny expressions you've heard along the way? I had an old manager who was full of them:

    He's all hat and no cattle (nothing material behind his words)

    If you turned sideways we'd mark you absent (you're skinny)

    [Sighing,shaking head] It's not even about winning anymore, it's about what you lose by.

    [About someone who has all the gossip] I tell you what, I bet you hear the grass grow. You hear everything!

    I do have a heart you know, not just a swinging brick on a rope.

    Any nice ones you've come across?


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Comments

  • Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "Humanity has been crossed."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,429 ✭✭✭trashcan


    One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,344 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    "I'm as dry as a Drake in a hay loft"

    Translation, I'm parched.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭_blaaz


    You'd see more meat on a tinkers stick after a fight



    Reference to a very thin person


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Blazedup


    trashcan wrote:
    One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

    Judge Judy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I’m so hungry I’d eat the bare arse of a nun through the convent gates.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    He'd be in the crib at Christmas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    I'd drink out of a tinker's knickers.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,961 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I'd eat the leg of the lamb of god


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    It is better to have people think you are an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I'm that hungry, I'd eat the arse of a low flying duck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    trashcan wrote: »
    One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."


    Mainly heard when in the company of Sean O'Brien


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    I'm so hungry I'd eat a horse between two breadvans.

    If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle.

    You'd use less petrol driving over him than driving around him.

    He'd get up on a hairy rasher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,655 ✭✭✭Archeron


    I'm buying you a roundy bed so you can't get out the wrong side of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    BuboBubo wrote: »
    If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle.
    .

    Not necessarily these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭memorystick


    An empty bag is a happy bag.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    He’d turn up for the opening of an envelope.

    (A politician or other worthy who goes to lots of events).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,807 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Not so much a phrase but a term.
    'Hakiecock' - country word for a person (usually a woman) who has their nose in everyone's business.

    Similar to an 'altar licker' - someone who is a holy Joe.

    To thine own self be true



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,344 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    You'd eat that if you were in Africa


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,777 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Any craic?
    Response: Just the one I sit on.

    This too shall pass.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    trashcan wrote: »
    One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."
    In a southern US accent: "Don't spit on mah cupcake and call it frawstin!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    I was born at night, but I wasn't born last night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Mackerel sky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Hibernicis


    You can spend it on good food or spend it on doctors


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭gingerhousewife


    "An empty house is better than a bad tenant"

    Wise words of wisdom from my dad after I puked from too many pints, aged 19.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,344 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Hunger is a good sauce


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,261 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    My favourite one from my father is "he has a neck like a jockeys boll0x"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 211 ✭✭Johnnycanyon


    He would mind mice at a crossroads.


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