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Best Irish Slang Phrase You've Ever Heard?

  • 11-09-2014 02:45PM
    #1
    JrdanB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭


    What's the craic?

    ask the back of me sack!


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  • #2
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    JrdanB wrote: »
    What's the craic?

    ask the back of me sack!
    Not that anyway!


  • #3
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Up on blocks

    *for "period".


  • #4
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    I will in me f**k.


  • #5
    Grandeeod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    A whores melt.


  • #6
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,565 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Just watch the committments & and the snapper. the films are littered with great one liners that only the irish would get


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  • #7
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    When hungry:

    "I would eat the boll*x off a low flying duck"


  • #8
    Get Real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭Get Real


    Catnipped- drunk, inerbriated.

    Catnippery- the act of engaging in boisterous behaviour on a night out. "some catnippery last night lads"

    Ballbagged- see catnipped.


    I admit they're not that common, but makes me smile every time I hear them used :D


  • #9
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Be the love of the lord lamp lighting jaysus that was some feed.

    The best compliment one can give to a particularly tasty meal.


  • #10
    Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius!


    'Mup outa that


  • #11
    preston johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭preston johnny


    Langer


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  • #12
    Leslie91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Leslie91


    Only heard this one recently..... when the missus is 'out of action'....

    "Munster are playing at home".


  • #13
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    How's she cutting.


  • #14
    FortuneChip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    I had a mate once that met this girl in a nightclub.
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    "Just lob it in there, boss"
    entire story may be fabricated


  • #15
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    "A handy hurler" - all the character reference you need to get a job in some parts.


  • #16
    paulpd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭paulpd


    I'll beat you like a red-headed stepchild


  • #17
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,565 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    FortuneChip wrote: »
    I had a mate once that met this girl in a nightclub.
    ...
    ...
    ...
    ...

    "Just lob it in there, boss"
    entire story may be fabricated

    Buddy of mine spotted a cracking girl one day and says to me

    "I'd swim through a mile of sh1te to suck the c0ck of the last guy who fu€ked her".


  • #18
    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    Mere I wan cha


  • #19
    pajor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    "That day is so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey."


  • #20
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    "the tide wouldn't take 'er out"


  • #21
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Go and bite the butt end of me bollix"


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  • #22
    paperclip2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2


    I will in me hoop.


  • #23
    TheJackAttack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭TheJackAttack


    "A boy the kidddddddddd!"


  • #24
    Autonomous Cowherd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    ''They'd make a tinker out of ye....'' (referring to bold children) :)


  • #25
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Half of these aren't exclusively Irish.


  • #26
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    And the other half are shite!


  • #27
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    That legendary Irish wit.


  • #28
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    And the other half are shite!

    well, lets have your donation....


  • #29
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    my tongue's as dry as a Zulu's flip-flop.

    [o.k. o.k. not technically Irish, Captain Buzzkill]


  • #30
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    When I asked my da about a forty something woman trying to conceive...

    "I think the nest has fallen out of that tree".


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  • #31
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    And the other half are shite!

    And the third half are euphemisms.


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