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Ah jaysus I was elephants last night :s

  • 02-06-2014 11:53AM
    #1
    steddyeddy
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    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?


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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    You are an elephant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uZQnhvf49o


  • #3
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    Is that some kind of irony?

    An elephant never forgets, but I'd say most drunk people do!


  • #4
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    Yore Ma..


  • #5
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Piriz


    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)


  • #6
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Piriz wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)

    You mean enall, My favourite would be ''ask the butt end of me b0llox'' or 'yeah ask your sister''..


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  • #7
    MortGoldman
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    I was utterly gazeboed!


  • #8
    kneemos
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?

    D4?


  • #9
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Piriz


    not yet wrote: »
    You mean enall, My favourite would be ''ask the butt end of me b0llox'' or 'yeah ask your sister''..

    no, i mean an' all.


  • #10
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    kneemos wrote: »
    D4?

    Nooooo! That would be Dublin city expression. Although I have heard it in Dunlaoghaire sometimes.


  • #11
    catallus
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    Is "Elephants" common in Dublin? Or recently new?


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  • #12
    csallmighty
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    Scuttered


  • #13
    Piriz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Piriz


    i think the best expressions ever is:

    your man & your one..


  • #14
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Elephants meaning locked drunk in the part of Dublin I hail from. What expressions from Dublin or your part of the country do you love?


    Gob****e is a good one. Like that time I said "Did you hear that drunken gob****e? Said he was elephants?"


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
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    I was absolutely fiber glassed windowed....see you could use any time in Ireland to sufficiently describe how drunk you were....

    Try it....

    I was so brown bread last night,
    I was a drunk as a monkey on a pogo stick.....


  • #16
    gramar
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    'but'

    I think it sounds funny when it's tacked onto the end of a sentence but.


  • #17
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    MarkR wrote: »
    Gob****e is a good one. Like that time I said "Did you hear that drunken gob****e? Said he was elephants?"

    Well in fairness I said it sober.


  • #18
    Karede
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Karede


    ah "elephants" is around years. It comes from the cockney rhyming slang elephants trunk = drunk.


  • #19
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    'I may as well be looking up a ducks hole.'

    When you have no idea what your at.


  • #20
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    I was langers.


  • #21
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Karede wrote: »
    ah "elephants" is around years. It comes from the cockney rhyming slang elephants trunk = drunk.

    Ah cool!. Thanks I always wondered where that came from.


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  • #22
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    As fun and all as folk etymologies are, I prefer this definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=elephant

    Actually, that's awful! haha :)


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
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    Gee eyed : )


  • #24
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Another Dublin one is "that's a right how's your father".


  • #25
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    As black as Christmas.


  • #26
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    As black as Christmas.

    I thought it was as gay as christmas?


  • #27
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    "Fck off you culchie priiiick!" .......that's the one I get told most anyway :)


  • #28
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Another Dublin one is "that's a right how's your father".


    Again, not a Dublin expression. You also seem to be mixing up "A right how do you do" and "how's your father", which have very different meanings.


  • #29
    pebbles21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Piriz wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin too but never heard 'elephants'...not a fan of it... i love the expression "an' all" usually tagged onto the end of a sentence to summarise what was going on... :)

    Usually a Northside thing "anall"

    If you drive on M50 towards the Airport you will see a sign for Ballymun an Naul !


  • #30
    robbie67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭robbie67


    Twisted


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  • #31
    nikpmup
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