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Classic Irish Phrases No Longer in Use

  • 02-02-2008 06:10AM
    #1
    dSTAR
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    Whats words or phrases do you remember as a kid that no-one ever really uses anymore?

    Some I can remember are ...

    When something was good it was gift

    When I met a person from the country they sometimes said is it yerself?

    When asked if you had sex with your g/f it was .. did you get your hole?

    When someone was a total numbskull they were a bleedin' tick


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  • #2
    TestTransmission
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    My mother used to say "the pictures" instead of the cinema..actually come to think of it,i think she still does :)


  • #3
    5starpool
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    dSTAR wrote: »
    Whats words or phrases do you remember as a kid that no-one ever really uses anymore?

    Some I can remember are ...

    When something was good it was gift

    When I met a person from the country they sometimes said is it yerself?

    When asked if you had sex with your g/f it was .. did you get your hole?

    When someone was a total numbskull they were a bleedin' tick

    You probably don't hear people using those phrases because you are in Melbourne. Apart from the last one I still hear the rest at least occasionally.


  • #4
    dSTAR
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    Possibly. I'm sure theres lots of others though ..


  • #5
    S.I.R
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    them ones are still in use.... though there being phased out dSTAR... :rolleyes:


  • #6
    silverharp
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    going to the shops to get the messages

    going to spend a penny

    getting the train from Kingsbridge. years after the name had changed.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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  • #7
    gollyitsolly
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    Did you get your ware?


  • #8
    spurious
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    I still say 'the pictures' for the cinema.
    I think I must be 103.


  • #9
    dlofnep
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    dSTAR wrote: »
    did you get your hole?[/I]

    Still being used today!

    Although, instead of saying "She's deadly!" - it's being replaced with "She's fresh!" by all these neo-dweeb skateboard-emo teen types. Fresh? What is she? A ham sandwich?


  • #10
    Amazotheamazing
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    The fourth one is wrong, people weren't being called " a bleedin' tick" as in the small insect (or whatever) that sucks blood, but "bleedin' thick" as being an idiot, I still regularly hear people being called "thick".


  • #11
    dlofnep
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    There are people in Ireland who can pronounce their th's?


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  • #12
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    In Dublin it used to be "Bleed's boggers'', now thats gone and changed to "Bleed'n foreigners".


  • #13
    dlofnep
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    Nobody outside of Dublin ever says bleedin'! Well, unless.. you know. It's that time.


  • #14
    Amazotheamazing
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    dlofnep wrote: »
    There are people in Ireland who can pronounce their th's?

    Yes, but like using the withdrawal method, it's dying out. Soon both will be a lost art.


  • #15
    fricatus
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    When I was a teenager (early '90s) we'd hit town on a Friday night, so the next day we'd all arrive into the café the next day around 3 for the post mortem, and the first question asked would be "d'ya shift?"


  • #16
    dlofnep
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    fricatus wrote: »
    When I was a teenager (early '90s) we'd hit town on a Friday night, so the next day we'd all arrive into the café the next day around 3 for the post mortem, and the first question asked would be "d'ya shift?"

    Nobody ever said shift in Waterford, you big liar.

    "Stall", "Go off with" and "Ride" were the standard phrases.


  • #17
    rubadub
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    Whischt


  • #18
    dlofnep
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    rubadub wrote: »
    Whischt

    My uncle still says that! Bit of wisht! No idea where it comes from though?


  • #19
    Ruu_Old
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    rubadub wrote: »
    Whischt

    A great one, my Dad still uses it. :D

    Me: "United are brutal!"
    Him: "Ahhh will ya wisht!"


  • #20
    gollyitsolly
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    That fella hasnt got an arse in his trousers! I think it meant he was poor.


  • #21
    gollyitsolly
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    Another one. Fur coat and no knickers. Ha ha ha ,I love that one. My ma would be peeping out the window looking at a "posh" neighbour going up the road.


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  • #22
    MrJoeSoap
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    Mairt wrote: »
    In Dublin it used to be "Bleed's boggers'', now thats gone and changed to "Bleed'n foreigners".

    Pronounced "fordiners"


  • #23
    Sam Vimes
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    Ruu wrote: »
    A great one, my Dad still uses it. :D

    Me: "United are brutal!"
    Him: "Ahhh will ya wisht!"

    also a boards user
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=74164


  • #24
    dSTAR
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    silverharp wrote: »
    going to the shops to get the messages..
    :D

    Yeah .. now thats what I am taking about!

    Messages? What the hell is that??


  • #25
    phasers
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    I use all the phrases you've mentioned and I'm only 16 :(

    I think not enough people call things "bleedin rappih" any more


  • #26
    lilann
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    My ma used to call the kitchen the scullery


  • #27
    FunkZ
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    I still say what's the crack.


  • #28
    IanCurtis
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    My oul fella uses "Mudder ah Jay" to express shock:

    Me: "Did you hear Billy Byrnes is dead?"

    Oul Fella: "Is he? Ah Mudder ah Jay"

    I think it means Mother of Jesus

    Sometimes he adds in "Tonight" at the end to express further shock


  • #29
    Fast_Mover
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    I thought the utility room not the kitchen was known as the scullery..


  • #30
    gollyitsolly
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    Gerrup the yard,will ya.


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  • #31
    Jesus Wept
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    FunkZ wrote: »
    I still say what's the crack.


    You are about the 4th person I've seen spell it like that on these here boards.
    What's going on?

    There is a major difference between crack and craic lads.
    Get it together! :)


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