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Looking for colloquial Irish sayings describing the weather

  • 30-11-2011 07:03PM
    #1
    jimmymal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭


    Hey everybody,

    I'm looking for colloquial Irish sayings describing the weather (all types) for a project in college, however they must be specific to a region or city.

    Any help at all here would be appreciated.

    Cheers in advance.


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  • #2
    martic
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    Christ but thats a horrible hure of a day :D


  • #3
    mathepac
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    Cavan / Monaghan - "If the weather stays like this it'll not change"


  • #4
    Not
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    Donegal - "Jaysus the frog won't budge, it's going to be a bad one*" :D

    * edit : as in 'winter'


  • #5
    marketty
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    It's horrid 'close'. (humid I think)
    The wind'd hould ya. (a cold strong wind)
    These are from Meath, haven't heard them elsewhere.


  • #6
    1966
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    Soft day.


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  • #7
    Not
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    marketty wrote: »
    It's horrid 'close'. (humid I think)
    The wind'd hould ya. (a cold strong wind)
    These are from Meath, haven't heard them elsewhere.

    Have heard in Dublin "The wind would skin you alive". I've no idea if that's excusive to Dublin, I suspect not.


  • #8
    looksee
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    That's a lazy wind, goes straight through you. - don't know if it is specific to an area.


  • #9
    JustAddWater
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuUqrJZ6S2Y


  • #10
    kwik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭kwik


    Its baltic out there isnt it. Im in dublin but dont know if its said everywere..... or if its said at all but i say it myself so it has to count.


  • #11
    mp22
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    Hardy


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  • #12
    Ellian
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    it's a soft day.

    Foundered as in cold.


  • #13
    hop2it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭hop2it


    old enniscorthy saying for high wind's ( the wind would cut the horns off a snail )


  • #14
    amacachi
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    looksee wrote: »
    That's a lazy wind, goes straight through you. - don't know if it is specific to an area.

    It's here in Louth anyway.


  • #15
    fr wishy washy
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    Brass Monkeys (Dont Ask)


  • #16
    Not
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    Howlin' like a banshee


  • #17
    Deep Easterly
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    "A ****ing rotton c**t of a day" - Tuam


  • #18
    Drakmord
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    The wind'd skin a brass monkey.

    -North East Cork


  • #19
    byhookorbycrook
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    West Limerick-when frost and ice are expected "A snipe won't stand in the morning"
    North Cork:
    Dew on the grass, rain won't come to pass.
    Mare's tails and mackerel sky, not long wet and not long dry.


  • #20
    SAINTRON
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    ''its pissin' it down''

    Everywhere, all the time.


  • #21
    errisshooter
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    It would freeze the balls off a brass monkey (Cold)
    A Fox of a day (Very changable)
    Only a day for the fire (Cold & Wet)
    Its a Mucky One (Damp)
    Its a Skelper (Cold & Windy)


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  • #22
    Su Campu
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    There's snow on them thar hills.....

    (Coleraine)


  • #23
    lord lucan
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    It's Baltic out!

    IE: It's very cold.:)


  • #24
    TheMilkyPirate
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    Su Campu wrote: »
    There's snow on them thar hills.....

    (Coleraine)

    There's snow on them thar hills, A tornado in my back garden, Hailstones the size of cats and a supercell hovering over the town hall.

    (Owen c, Coleraine)


  • #25
    Faing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭Faing


    Rain like stair rods


  • #26
    colincork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭colincork


    It's a day for the ducks!(wet day)


  • #27
    mountainy man
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    It's boiling rain, humid/thundery


  • #28
    Villain
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    "It'll be cold when the North wind does blow"


  • #29
    Dotsie~tmp
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    It's fúckin' lashin'..

    Dublin: Heavy rain.


  • #30
    bionic.laura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭bionic.laura


    You wouldn't put a gate out in it - Cold, wet and windy. From south kilkenny.


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  • #31
    mathepac
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    fr wishy washy wrote: »
    Brass Monkeys (Dont Ask)
    Drakmord wrote: »
    The wind'd skin a brass monkey...
    errisshooter wrote: »
    It would freeze the balls off a brass monkey (Cold) ...
    AFAIK I think that all the "Brass Monkey" references for cold weather are British Army / British Navy in origin, not Irish.

    A brass monkey is a pyramid-like brass frame for holding cannon-balls or round shot.

    The cannon-balls were made of lead (usually) and in cold weather the brass frame shrank significantly, dislodging the cannon-balls which maintained their size, hence the expression.

    If anyone has another origin for "Brass Monkey" then I'd be interested to hear it.


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