Phrases and the likes you never hear outside Ireland

There were kids in my school who scutted home every day. Up the Malahide Road from Griffith Avenue hanging out the back of a lorry, hoping that the traffic lights in Donnycarney would be red, otherwise they'd end up in Artane.

Here's a scientific paper about it from 1989: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0020138389900065

Would assume any implement , saw, axe, turfspade,scythe, if she's cutting well all is good with the world

When purchasing fuel for an agricultural vehicle, certain parts of the country speak of 'gettin a bitta DAYZIL!' It probably translates into something delicious in German or Swedish, however the English speaking world tends to purchase Diesel most of the time

Of quarrelling:

Oh, wigs on the green and no holds barred...

There was skin and hair flying.

They'd ate him and bate him!

He was et, bet and thrung up!

Particular to parts of Limerick city is "c'mere 'til I tell you a question"

Only with tongue firmly in cheek.

Surely "in terms of" is the leading Irish phrase these days, in the public arena at least.

If you're involved in GAA then there's only a limited vocabulary of words and set phrases that you may use when interviewed after a match. Just rearrange these phrases to give different answers to different questions, without actually saying anything. Having a thick Tipperary accent helps too.

Such an interview goes something like this:

Marty: Well, Seany Joe, that was some match there. You must be overjoyed to win it.

Seany Joe: Ah sure lookit, Marty, I suppose at the end of de day sure, ya know, like.

Marty: And the others put up a real fight.

Seany Joe: Indeedn, as I said, sure, I suppose, ya know, like, at the end of the day, sure lookit.

At the end of the day we all have to get up in the morning.

And make sure one of our socks isn't inside out because it's bad luck but if we've done it don't take it off and put it on properly because that's even worse luck.

Just be glad it wasn't "Santo"!!

As an 80-something customer said to one of our barstaff recently "You haven't got a boyfriend? That's an awful waste of a woman!".

Wigs on the green.... I was told a long time ago that the phrase originated as Whigs on the green.

Whigs being members of a UK 19th century political party that was known to protest frequently outside the houses of parliment on the grass space where protests are still held to this day. The idea being you had better be careful what you say in the house in case you annoy the whigs and they head out to protest - so ... 'there'll be whigs on the green'.

That being said.... google seems to favour 'wigs' with an explanation that wigs would be pulled off in a fight and discarded on the ground.

No, never. One of those stage Irish expressions that the Yanks probably invented. Another one is begorragh. Possibly the result of them mishearing By God or BeGod.