What are your funniest Irish sayings?

BigDuffman · 09-03-2010 4:05pm

Or the little bow wow was leppin' up at me!
Leppin about the place like a mad whoer

bradyle · 09-03-2010 5:10pm

awh bless your cotten socks....for when someone does somrthin cute or sweet

Stevokenevo · 09-03-2010 5:41pm

The head on ya - like two mile o' bad road

Hagar · 09-03-2010 5:44pm

Bad cess to ye. That has to be the most evil curse ever.

MHDesigns · 09-03-2010 6:38pm

"he wudnt drink soup"

"she had a f***y like a clowns pocket"

"cudnt organise a p**s up in a brewery"

"and Bobs your uncle" as in job done

"you're your fathers son"

Elenxor · 09-03-2010 6:53pm

We'll just have one more before we go!!!

ya-ba-da-ba-doo · 09-03-2010 7:01pm

How's your mother for duckeggs?

How's yer pit for silage?

How's yer ma's arse for maggots?

She had a face like a pig lickin' piss off a nettle.

bamboozle · 09-03-2010 8:51pm

'that was horribly nice'

unit88 · 09-03-2010 8:52pm

A old man who used to drink in a pub i worked in used to say "never let anyone tell your mother she reared a gibber" which apparently means your not a gobbsh*te made me laugh each time

Precious flower · 09-03-2010 8:56pm

'[Insert name here] got fair thick with me!'

clearlynot · 22-03-2010 10:23am

I love the irony in most of our beautiful slang, some of my favourites are:

Actin' the maggot
Creamed out of it
Fleeced
Relax the cacks

I was lookin at the Irish Slang site and saw a bunch I didn't recognise, also the popular Irish Sayings one was good. Loads out there to give ye the sh*ts and gigs haha

molloyjazz · 22-03-2010 10:58am

Ya know ur self

As rough as a bears arse

Ah now

Will ya STOP

molloyjazz · 22-03-2010 10:59am

yup outta dat

molloyjazz · 22-03-2010 11:00am

ya cnut ya

homerun_homer · 22-03-2010 11:10am

"You're a blither come skite and the ducks will get ye"

Taken from a Northern phrase book of my grannys.

clearlynot · 22-03-2010 1:15pm

what's the name of the book?

daisydotty · 31-03-2010 10:27pm

he's got the balls of a brass donkey!(describing someone cheeky!)

Spore · 31-03-2010 10:40pm

Mweelrea wrote: »

jeysus you're some numpty is a new one thats developed

Numpty is Scotch I'm afraid, you fail.

ilovebiology · 31-03-2010 10:46pm

As was said in the Michael Collins film said "Would ya get up off the parlimentary side of your ar*e and get a bit of colour in your face"

mojesius · 31-03-2010 10:54pm

I'm delighted with myself

nolly23 · 31-03-2010 11:15pm

Take her handy....if you get her handy take her twice.

BITE my sac

That beats banagher (beats pronounced bates)....

billymitchell · 16-06-2010 11:26pm

Is "in like Flynn" an Irish saying?

Cormac2791 · 16-06-2010 11:28pm

He was that thirsty, he'd lick the arse of a low flying duck.

Monaghanese ftw!!!

dezzyd · 16-06-2010 11:31pm

"my God, what kind of people are ye" from OH mother - because we went to the pub at 4.00pm to see match. Four in the day I say, shocking stuff!!

Wetbench4 · 16-06-2010 11:53pm

She has a mouth for coolin soup and legs for crossin a field!!
He's as mad as a brush/box of frogs.
Its too cold to snow.
Keep her lit.

Precious flower · 16-06-2010 11:54pm

I only know a few:

- Your mouths like a torn pocket!
- Are you chewing the cud? (For people chewing gum)
- Ah, your a cute one (Meaning your sly or smart)

Thats all I can think of at the moment!:P

Teutorix · 17-06-2010 12:01am

She's a face like a well slapped arse.

Up and down like a whoores knickers

I'd drag me balls through a mile-a broken glass to throw stones at her shíte

Scarinae · 17-06-2010 12:15am

Sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish shop

Mycroft H · 17-06-2010 12:18am

Had a donegal fellow in the jeep, overtaking a truck and out he comes 'go on, give her dixie' translated to 'give it some welly'

Though bearing in mind that most of the time that hes talking i just smile and nod and try not to laugh

jolter · 17-06-2010 12:21am

say nothing till ya hear more, and when ya hear more you say nothing...............in a cavan accent.

she's an arse like too boiled eggs in a hanky.

he'd want a serious kick in the congen box

mk2 · 17-06-2010 12:32am

you've a heart of corn,
he's that well hung he could whip cats from under the bed

Blargh · 17-06-2010 12:34am

Duno if this has been said.

Tight
Hes as tight as a camels arse in a sandstorm.:)

Mars Bar · 17-06-2010 12:41am

Hagar wrote: »

If he had brains he'd be dangerous.

My Dad bought my mam a keyring which said, "If I had a brain, I'd be dangerous", after she had brain surgery! Almost 18 years later and she still has it!

Smooth Dad, very smooth. :cool:

mk2 · 17-06-2010 12:49am

full as a bingo bus

minister poxbottle · 17-06-2010 12:55am

not sure if this is a genuine old irish saying but my dad used to say to me if i was doing something i shouldn't be doing

what in the name of bills bollixs are ya doin

minister poxbottle · 17-06-2010 1:00am

oh and another one

ya little scaldy balls :pac:

DonalN · 17-06-2010 1:00am

Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!!..and the Donkey!

"There ya go...I've left the keys in the ignition for ya"...for when you initiate a conversation with a burd your mate fancies.

teddy_303 · 17-06-2010 1:09am

the tide wouldn't take her out.

She's like a clowns pocket.

enniscorthy · 17-06-2010 1:13am

BIG LOAD OF DICKY

scudster · 17-06-2010 1:31am

jasus, I'm as full as an egg!
or a tic.
Either can suffice.

or for bein hungry,
I'd ate the 24 balls of the 12 apostles through the gates of heaven.

mk2 · 17-06-2010 1:33am

i'm that hungry i could eat a scabby wayne(child in donegal lol)

Sitec · 17-06-2010 1:50am

"I've a micky like a baby carrott but an arse like a flys wing":D

WallysWorld · 17-06-2010 2:56am

"Ah sure a sniper wouldn't take her out"

"An arse on her like two melons in a floursack" (this can work for tits too)

"I'd ate chips out of her knickers and drink tae out of her bellybutton"

And the perennial favorite on asking someone what they will have to drink "You'd drink it out of the hollow of a cowsh1te..."

Aglomerado · 17-06-2010 8:55am

Fánny like a welly top

I'm breaking my shíte laughing at this thread...

neil_hosey · 17-06-2010 9:03am

i wouldnt ride her into battle..

i wouldnt get up on her to get over a wall..

cournioni · 17-06-2010 9:03am

Not a saying as such but I was talking to a local lad who had seven shades of ****e beaten out of him St. Stephens day two years ago by some bouncers. I asked him how he got the shiner on his eye... He replied "I battered the ****e out of 10 lads and walked into a door!"

sensibleken · 17-06-2010 9:14am

Go raibh grainneóg a chead chac eile agat - may your next sh1te be a hedgehog

Standard Toaster · 17-06-2010 9:24am

"Spit on me Dickie"

moonpurple · 17-06-2010 9:25am

a lot done .... more to do

MitchKoobski · 17-06-2010 11:36am

Shure he's as mad as a month of sundays!

What are your funniest Irish sayings?

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