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Classic Irish Phrases No Longer in Use

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  • #62
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    dlofnep wrote: »
    "Stop that blagarding"

    its a classic that one. or if ya kicked a football into someones back garden, or somewhere where you cant get it back... he canted the ball


  • #63
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    juuge wrote: »
    You Clot !

    Ha! i remember sitting with a group of 4 or 5 friends for lunch, one of them spilled something and i sail "ah ya clot"! not one of them knew what i was saying or ever heard of the saying! my nan used to say:
    Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.


  • #64
    bangersandmash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭bangersandmash


    silverharp wrote: »

    going to spend a penny

    after the changover it is now to euronate


  • #65
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Terry wrote: »
    I've no idea what you're talking aboot.
    A band which was playing in Leixlip or somewhere near there ... could have been Maynooth ... was sure they were called Steelie Booley or something like that. 'Twas a while back though.

    On topic:

    "Sé thoil Dé!" ('tis God's will! / nothing to be done about it) ... yes, it still survives in the south-west and west anyway, Peig will never truely die!! :rolleyes:

    "A soft day ..." i.e. the whole bloody sky is melting and bucketing rain on top of you!

    "He wasn't that gone on her, he only gave her the loan of it!" ... well, fairly obvious, really!
    bangersandmash wrote: »
    after the changover it is now to euronate
    :D


  • #66
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭fricatus


    longshanks wrote: »
    ...or if ya kicked a football into someones back garden, or somewhere where you cant get it back... he canted the ball

    To cant the ball, as in lose by kicking it over a wall or something... very, very Waterford that... I wonder if it's in use anywhere else around the country?


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  • #67
    dSTAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Janey mac looks like me country cousins are out front. Always knew those Jackeens were a shower of amadans.


  • #68
    Jesus Wept
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    LadyJ wrote: »
    This was my favourite one.

    I always suspected that you were a feeler.


  • #69
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    Their'll be wigs on the green if... (A threat my Da uses.)

    I haven't a sixpence.

    Stung Rapid.

    That gust would skin ye (Reffering to the wind. Prononced "gusht" and "shkin" )

    Put a bit of wind in that (Turn up the volume)


  • #70
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    jackpalance wrote: »
    That gust would skin ye (Reffering to the wind. Prononced "gusht" and "shkin" )
    Aye ... "that wind would go through you for a short cut!"


  • #71
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    My mammy always says "the weather's cat" if it's bad out...
    And "it was a pure pantomine" if something humorous has happened :)

    Heard some country boyos comment on someone's shoes d'other day "Cop a load of the clogs on that fiend!" (I know it's not not still in use, but I thought it was classic...)


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  • #72
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Nobody ever said shift in Waterford, you big liar.

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

    The worst I ever heard was "will ya flick me?" :eek:
    Flick! Although I think that was a Mayo lassie...


  • #73
    viking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭viking


    One I heard recently when I phoned a mate:

    "No I'm not busy, I'm just doing the delph..."

    Hadn't heard that one in years...

    Also:

    "flushing the chain" - when toilets in Ireland don't have chains anymore!


  • #74
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    most toilets have chains.... open the basin lid :rolleyes:

    does 'top of the mornin' count?


  • #75
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    "that fella shudda a being an abbey actor" think it meant he was a bit of a liar!


  • #76
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,873 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Jaysus - Would you look at her? Bleedin' Siobhan McKenna!
    That lady is behaving in a rather dramatic manner.

    I'm up to me oxters in work.
    I am very busy.

    I'm up to me oxters in gee at the minute.
    I currently have a choice of sexual partners.


  • #77
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    silverharp wrote: »
    going to the shops to get the messages
    Still used in Scotland. Meaning to get your shopping.


  • #78
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    "Well, **** me and the baby's yours!" (Might get unwanted attention from social workers in the present climate, though....)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #79
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    When my granny would go to do her shopping she'd always say "I'm going up the town to do a few messages".


  • #80
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    doonothing wrote: »
    Heard some country boyos comment on someone's shoes d'other day "Cop a load of the clogs on that fiend!" (I know it's not not still in use, but I thought it was classic...)
    You sure it's not pronounced feen?
    I know a few people from south Kildare who use that.
    I always assumed it was a bastardisation of fenian.


  • #81
    gracehopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    mutton dressed as lamb - Some sla*pper dressed up semi-nice.

    Suffereing lamb of jaysus - My mam used to say that in the 70's when we lived in east wall.

    the used to love the aul lamb of god and all dat back then


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  • #82
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Overheal wrote: »
    most toilets have chains.... open the basin lid :rolleyes:
    Actually the flushing the chain comes from when toilets were gravity fed and the cistern was 6/7 feet up on the wall and chain hung down on the side to flush the toilet. What's inside most modern toilet cisterns is a piece of rigid wire in an s-hook shape connecting the handle to the cistern unit. [in hotels etc it's a self contained automatic unit though] /toilet history
    silverharp wrote: »
    going to the shops to get the messages

    My granny still uses that all the time. I like it.


  • #83
    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    Gobdaw-an eejit. I think it's a Waterford expression
    Whisht as my granny would say.
    Musha-same granny! As is Ah musha look at whatever.
    Going for messages or to the pictures. I say it myself.
    She had a mouth on her like a Malahide cod-self explanatory.
    Heaps more I can't think of now.


  • #84
    Dub6Kevin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭Dub6Kevin


    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?"


    Reminds me of some of the things said by the lads in relation to less than stunningly attractive young women.

    " A tractor wouldn't shift her"

    "If she had pedals I wouldn't ride her"

    "if I had a bucketful of mickeys, I wouldn't give her one"

    Vulgar - yes, but I have that type of a sense of humour so they amuse me!


  • #85
    Banner_girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Banner_girl


    If you had a pain in your head you would say I've a pain in my nopper, bleedin' omadán meant bloody eejit for fella, óinseach for girl. No matter who was right or wrong it was "all da one" or "same difference", bad weather was seen as "fairly hairy out der". A tin of coke? Knee high to a grasshopper? "Me auld crubeans"-My poor legs. Pint of porter. Cop'on! A quare yoke.


  • #86
    Banner_girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭Banner_girl


    Not forgettin the auld codger!!


  • #87
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    stop that codology!
    also, "blinking clown", as in eejit


  • #88
    Higgsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Higgsy


    Like it folks,

    A while ago I tried to compile a list of irish slang terms, hit a road block but some great sayings in this thread.

    http://irishslang.blogspot.com/


  • #89
    missingtime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    Seeker wrote: »
    "You're a legend!" seemed to be used for a while. I dont hear it much anymore though.

    Its changed to "You're a ledge" which is ridiculous.


  • #90
    gillybeans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭gillybeans


    1. Brand new shampoo, cabbage and potatoes

    2. Savage

    :D


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  • #91
    nevaeh-2die-4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭nevaeh-2die-4


    tha smell of ya ma`s gowl

    OR

    smells me helmet


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