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Phrases and the likes you never hear outside Ireland

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.. 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!

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Esel

Brits Out!

[Deleted User]

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.

Hot press

smoke a fag

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".

What's the craic?

sound out.

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.