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Ah jaysus I was elephants last night :s

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  • #32
    sligojoek
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    C*ntified


  • #33
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    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.

    Well the one I grew up with was "that's a right how's your father" or "I gave your one a right how's your father last night".


  • #34
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    I was Diageo'd


  • #35
    DenMan
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    Quantified! :D


  • #36
    not yet
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    Buckled, pissed, plastered, mangled, out of me face, stocious, Bullitt proof.


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  • #37
    Davei141
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    Konyed.


  • #38
    Butterface
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    I was fluthered!


  • #39
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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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?

    Sorry to disillusion you but that's used all over the country. As are most expressions Dubliners think are unique to Dublin. I think they don't get around enough to lose the parochial attitude.


  • #40
    dodderangler
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    catallus wrote: »
    Is "Elephants" common in Dublin? Or recently new?

    They've been in dublin zoo years.


  • #41
    umop.episdn
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    They've been in dublin zoo years.

    Quite a few in Coppers too


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  • #42
    nxbyveromdwjpg
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    umop.episdn wrote: »
    Quite a few in Coppers too

    They're usually country imports though


  • #43
    Colser
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    I was locked...:)


  • #44
    anncoates
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    I was melodeoned.

    Pronounced mel-ow-jind


  • #45
    efb
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    All n anyways


  • #46
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    anncoates wrote: »
    I was melodeoned.

    Pronounced mel-ow-jind

    That's cat melodeoned


  • #47
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Plum Tuckered Out.


  • #48
    Meangadh
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    Three sheets to the wind
    A bit on the Kildare side
    Baloobas


  • #49
    Smidge
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Ah cool!. Thanks I always wondered where that came from.

    It is an old Dublin expression but afaik its nothing to do with elephants trunk :confused:
    It would have been used when someone was waaayyy past drunk, so much so that they would see the "pink elephants" ie hallucinations from alcohol


  • #50
    maguic24
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    Lakes...as in 'I was lakes last night lads, completely lakes'.


  • #51
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    Meangadh wrote: »
    Three sheets to the wind
    A bit on the Kildare side
    Baloobas

    3 sheets is a nautical term,
    Baloobas is slang for breasts, but never heard the kildare one before


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  • #52
    El Weirdo
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    Washing machined.


  • #53
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Smidge wrote: »
    It is an old Dublin expression but afaik its nothing to do with elephants trunk :confused:
    It would have been used when someone was waaayyy past drunk, so much so that they would see the "pink elephants" ie hallucinations from alcohol
    It was first used in 1913 by Jack London and is very far from being a Dublin expression.


  • #54
    dodderangler
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    umop.episdn wrote: »
    Quite a few in Coppers too

    Wouldn't waste me time going into that watering hole. Elephants,rhinos, hippos and buffalo surround that place


  • #55
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    Smidge wrote: »
    It is an old Dublin expression but afaik its nothing to do with elephants trunk :confused:
    It would have been used when someone was waaayyy past drunk, so much so that they would see the "pink elephants" ie hallucinations from alcohol

    It's an old English term alright, didn't originate in Dublin


  • #56
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Braelyn Flabby Elbow wrote: »
    It was first used in 1913 by Jack London and is very far from being a Dublin expression.

    But it is about hallucinating from drink though. And as for it being a Dublin expression, it was mainly used in Dublin before other parts of the country.
    I've never heard it used outside of Dublin actually, and I'm far from parochial ;)


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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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?
    It's Cockney rhyming slang, Arfur Daley would be proud of you!


  • #58
    Vito Corleone
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    Ossified, Mouldified, steamboats.


  • #59
    Smidge
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    umop.episdn wrote: »
    It's an old English term alright, didn't originate in Dublin

    Never said it originated in Dublin:confused:
    I said it was an expression used in Dublin, as did other posters


  • #60
    MRnotlob606
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    a "night on the tins" is one i heard here in waterford.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Smidge wrote: »
    Never said it originated in Dublin:confused:
    I said it was an expression used in Dublin, as did other posters
    Probably by people back from London. ;)


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