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Nice turn of phrase you've heard

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  • #52
    Pints?
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭Pints?


    You can be a king or a street sweeper
    But everybody dances with the grim reaper


  • #53
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Ive heard some ferocious ones that i think are hardly turns of phrase more put downs


  • #54
    Bassfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    She's all fur coat and no knickers!

    He's so mean he'd steal the hole out of your polo mint!


  • #55
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    myshirt wrote: »
    It's the same as saying "That fella, he's the type you'd invite him to the communion and he'd stay on for the confirmation".

    Someone who overstays their welcome and gets too comfortable. Starts eating your food out of the fridge. Taking showers in your house. And you just invited them over for the evening.

    Thanks!

    My OH's dad has a wicked turn of phrase. I find a lot of them hilarious even though he's not saying them as a joke. Great one, on a windy bendy road - "the cúnt that laid this out the first day ever must have had a reel in his head"


  • #56
    topnotch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭topnotch


    Blazedup wrote: »
    Judge Judy

    No Sean O’Brien. :p


  • #57
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,301 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    All fart and no poo

    (Someone who will say they'll do something and never actually do it)


  • #58
    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    You're on the right road, but going the wrong way.


  • #59
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Shemale wrote: »

    "I'm too big of a cat to be taken in by a kitten" I am in my 40s and I use it myself now
    I love that!


  • #60
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    "You wouldn't find him in a lucky bag" - Describing an odd person


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  • #61
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,301 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    If there was work in the bed, he'd sleep on the floor


  • #62
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,280 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Ive heard some ferocious ones that i think are hardly turns of phrase more put downs
    Like someone with protruding teeth.
    'He could eat an apple through a tennis racquet.'

    To thine own self be true



  • #63
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Worse than that purple.


  • #64
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    She had a fanny like a ripped out fireplace.


  • #65
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    My dad is stoic when he loses on the horses.

    “Not a bad horse. Took ten horses to beat him”.


  • #66
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    The tide wouldn't take her (or him) out.


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  • #67
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,429 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    "Des Kelly wouldn't lay her"


  • #68
    Janeys gotta bun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Janeys gotta bun


    In my younger days having given my boyfriend a lovebite. Overheard his buddy say "she could eat an apple through a tennis racket". No regrets.


  • #69
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Something/someone small = "not the size of a good shyte"

    A short person = "not the size of a big dog sitting"

    A nervous person = "shaking like a sh*tting dog"

    Someone with big teeth = "could chew a turnip through a letterbox", "could eat an apple through a tennis racket"


  • #70
    irishgrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    Gremlinertia wrote:
    I'd eat the leg of the lamb of god


    I'd eat the c*nt off a low flying duck


  • #71
    Janeys gotta bun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭Janeys gotta bun


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Something/someone small = "not the size of a good shyte"

    A short person = "not the size of a big dog sitting"

    A nervous person = "shaking like a sh*tting dog"

    Someone with big teeth = "could chew a turnip through a letterbox", "could eat an apple through a tennis racket"

    Just to clarify. I don't have big teeth.


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  • #72
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    "Nice turn of phrase you've heard"

    Not one of these are nice, in fact they are the exact opposite. What a depressing place.


  • #73
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Make your mind up ="shyte or get off the pot"

    Stingy ="tight as a duck's arse underwater" or "tight as a camel's hole in a sandstorm".


  • #74
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    For a stubborn person.

    They'd decline a box of matches and carry on to rub sticks.


  • #75
    Deub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭Deub


    A quote my dad uses when I worry about something: " Fear doesn't avoid danger"


  • #76
    jbt123
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭jbt123


    Being a Grandparent is Gods reward for being a parent yourself.


  • #77
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    gingerhousewife wrote: »
    "An empty house is better than a bad tenant"

    Wise words of wisdom from my dad after I puked from too many pints, aged 19.

    My father used to say that after farting.


  • #78
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Colonel Claptrap wrote: »
    It would be like throwing a sausage up O'Connell street.
    johnayo wrote: »
    She had a fanny like a ripped out fireplace.

    Like opening the drapes and fúcking the night.


  • #79
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    “If only it should only happen to me.”

    ''All his money went to Hell.''/ ''All his money went to heaven.''


  • #80
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    After watching the behaviour of a customer in a pub a few years ago I decided to bar him the next night he came in. After 10 minutes of pleading and begging he came up with this gem.

    "If St. Peter is anything like you, heaven is going to be a lonely place for me."

    Before he left he left me with another one.

    "Ya fúckin príck."


  • #81
    jonski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jonski


    An old phrase for diarrhoea - the hurry out and the delay abroad .
    You'll pay dearly for that - that'll be the rock you'll perish on .


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  • #82
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    excira and delighra


  • #83
    ideb
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭ideb


    "There's no pockets in a shroud".

    Meaning we can't take our money with us when we die. A way of saying live now/don't be worried about money.


  • #84
    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    Always arrive at the party with one arm longer than the other...

    Meaning don't turn up with out a bottle or food or something perishable


  • #85
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    "I'm so hungry I could eat out of a scabby nappy"

    "I'd suck farts out of her arse"


  • #86
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    They're so mean that they only breath in.


  • #87
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    Your a little treasure, you should be taken out and buried.

    She wouldn’t run too well on soft ground.


  • #88
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    He/she thinks manual labor is a Spanish musician.


  • #89
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    ideb wrote: »
    "There's no pockets in a shroud".

    Meaning we can't take our money with us when we die. A way of saying live now/don't be worried about money.

    And no tow-bar on a hearse.


  • #90
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Tight arse = "he wouldn't swap you a thick penny for a thin one"


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  • #91
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    Shemale wrote: »
    I am very witty

    Self praise is no praise


  • #92
    Colonel Claptrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Colonel Claptrap


    Nobelium wrote: »
    "Nice turn of phrase you've heard"

    Not one of these are nice, in fact they are the exact opposite. What a depressing place.

    Don't mind him^. He's harmless.


  • #93
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    He wouldn't give you the steam off his piss.


  • #94
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If he had a brain cell it would die of loneliness.

    My dad has loads of random sayings that he just says for no particular reason, his latest one is "Every little helps said the oul wan as she pished into the ocean",


  • #95
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    He should be shoved up a dog's arse and the dog shot.


  • #96
    Hedgelayer
    Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Hedgelayer


    I'm here because I'm not all there


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  • #97
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,153 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    He wouldn't work to keep warm.


  • #98
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,453 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    He should be shot with a ball of his own shyte


  • #99
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,126 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    About a politician greedy for publicity - "he'd go to the opening of an envelope"

    When someone asks you how are things - "ah ya know, same soup - just reheated"

    Always like the quote from a previous US president "speak softly and carry a big stick".

    And one from Futurama...

    "Arguing with an idiot is a lot like wrestling a pig You both get dirty and, after a few hours you realize... the pig likes it"


  • #100
    adgib
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭adgib


    Fanny like a torn sofa


  • #101
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    That's a right how's your father.


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