Nice turn of phrase you've heard

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 30-06-2019 10:45am

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.

This from you, a poster full of sweetness and light, is upsetting.

olestoepoke · 30-06-2019 10:49am

Honesty is the road to poverty

trashcan · 30-06-2019 11:29am

Poochie05 wrote: »

I didn’t float up the Lagan in a bubble

Less of the Paisley there fella

Filmer Paradise · 30-06-2019 12:30pm

Stingy; 'If he was a Ghost, he wouldn't give you a fright!.

branie2 · 30-06-2019 12:34pm

Save your breath to cool your porridge!

Conall Cernach · 30-06-2019 2:03pm

reap-a-rat wrote: »

What does this one mean?

It means someone that is always in everything where people will see him. You know he's in the local paper a couple of times a week or he does amateur dramatics, gives out communion, does the bingo calling, turns up at book launches and has to get his picture taken shaking hands with the author maybe even giving the crowd a few of his own anecdotes etc.

"I see Paddy in the paper with the Sam Maguire."

"Oh he'd be in the crib at Christmas."

K.Flyer · 30-06-2019 2:08pm

Conall Cernach wrote: »

It means someone that is always in everything where people will see him. You know he's in the local paper a couple of times a week or he does amateur dramatics, gives out communion, does the bingo calling, turns up at book launches and has to get his picture taken shaking hands with the author maybe even giving the crowd a few of his own anecdotes etc.

"I see Paddy Shane Ross in the paper with the Sam Maguire."

"Oh he'd be in the crib at Christmas."

fyp, Sorry, couldn't resist

Philipx · 30-06-2019 4:32pm

"Madder than a freshly f@@ked sheep"..... Someone who is a tad annoyed :P

Yester · 30-06-2019 4:40pm

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you probably don't understand the situation.

s7ryf3925pivug · 30-06-2019 4:40pm

"Fair enough" - to indicate mildly apathetic acceptance.
"OK" - nothing significant is wrong.
"lashing rain" - rain falling down so violently it is like being whipped.
"yum" - an exclamation indicating you like the taste of something. Its phonetic similarity to spontaneous "mm" noises indicating the same thing make this quite expressive.

Roanmore · 30-06-2019 4:50pm

Taken from a Nighthawks sketch (yep, I’m that old).

“My heart pumps piss for ya”.
Translation “I couldn’t give a ****e”

Beechwoodspark · 30-06-2019 4:59pm

Rough as a badgers arse hole

Face like a bulldog chewin a thistle

branie2 · 30-06-2019 5:55pm

Your face will stay like that when the wind changes

everlast75 · 30-06-2019 6:08pm

luck is when preparedness meets opportunity

ToddyDoody · 30-06-2019 6:39pm

Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Rubberlegs · 30-06-2019 6:49pm

Better to have what you don't need than need what you don't have.
I'm fond of trotting that one out when given out to for packing too much to take away

Jet Black · 30-06-2019 6:59pm

Don't assume, it makes an ass out of you and me. ass/u/me.

UFO. You feck off.

Eaten porridge is soon forgotten.

Don't tell that to a jockey.

I'd suck the farts out of her arse.

I'll streel out of her. ( Don't know the spelling but to pull someone around by the hair)

Nikki Sixx · 30-06-2019 7:14pm

BuboBubo wrote: »

I'm so hungry I'd eat a horse between two breadvans.

If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle.

You'd use less petrol driving over him than driving around him.

He'd get up on a hairy rasher.

Can you explain the aunt one?

DeanAustin · 30-06-2019 7:24pm

Golf one. Had to think about this first time I heard it. I said to my playing partner, “Just about” when he holed a putt.

Without missing a beat, he replied, “I’d rather nearly miss it than nearly get it.”

everlast75 · 30-06-2019 7:29pm

Nikki Sixx wrote: »

Can you explain the aunt one?

People who try to excuse things away..

If this happened then..

If that didn't happen then...

Well, if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle

marley1 · 30-06-2019 8:29pm

He is so lazy he would ****e in the bed and kick it out with his foot

Marz66 · 30-06-2019 9:38pm

DubInMeath wrote: »

He broke his nose with his mouth.

Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón.

Slainte na bhfear agus go maire na mná go deo!
Cheers / Health to the men and may the women live forever!

Nearly never bulled a cow.

To a couple getting married/moving in together:
May your roof never fall in
And those beneath it never fall out.

Gwynplaine · 30-06-2019 9:41pm

"He wouldn't see his heart on a clean plate"
"You could call the Queen your aunt"
"He hasn't the hands to wipe his arse"

Filmer Paradise · 30-06-2019 10:24pm

For those of you out there looking for love, always remember these wise & profound words of wisdom.....

There's a bucket for every arse.;)

ScoobyDosent · 30-06-2019 10:48pm

"He'd crawl 5 miles on his hands and knees over broken glass to sniff the wheels of the van that brought her knickers to the dry cleaners ."

johnayo · 30-06-2019 10:59pm

If you cant be with the one you love, Love the one your with.

No good being the richest man in the graveyard.

Jayferg · 30-06-2019 11:16pm

A wise man carries his coat on a good day

Hal3000 · 30-06-2019 11:19pm

From Chernobyl series

Every lie we tell inncurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later that debt is paid....

jimbobaloobob · 30-06-2019 11:32pm

Get busy living or get busy dying. Thats God damn right!

pure.conya · 30-06-2019 11:45pm

he'd be a horse of a man, if he had a stump of a tail and could $h1te walkin

dartboardio · 30-06-2019 11:50pm

Penny wise pound foolish (as said by my granny often)

Mutton dressed as lamb.

coolshannagh28 · 01-07-2019 12:00am

A horn that could poke rats out of a corn stack.

sligojoek · 01-07-2019 12:18am

coolshannagh28 wrote: »

A horn that could poke rats out of a corn stack.

Or bayte a donkey out of a field of carrots.

sligojoek · 01-07-2019 12:20am

I did the work of ten men today. Nine dead and one dying.

adgib · 01-07-2019 7:59am

To someone wearing cheap perfume or aftershave, you smell like the inside of a whores handbag

Roger Hassenforder · 01-07-2019 8:18am

"You cant ride two horses with one arsė"

If someone is trying to do too much

flazio · 01-07-2019 8:20am

Jeez that wan has more "baes" then the Wild Atlantic Way

the_pen_turner · 01-07-2019 11:02am

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

"You cant ride two horses with one arsė"

If someone is trying to do too much

i hear that more in a mean stingy kind of context. when someone is hogging something or not letting others use it

Roger Hassenforder · 01-07-2019 11:58am

the_pen_turner wrote: »

i hear that more in a mean stingy kind of context. when someone is hogging something or not letting others use it

Thats a "shît or get off the pot"

I use it to get out of work with my boss; if hes giving me another project and im already up to my tits. As in what does he want me to drop to do this latest assignment, cant do everything.

Keyzer · 01-07-2019 1:09pm

He'd put years on a ming vase...

Mehaffey1 · 01-07-2019 1:11pm

An electrician finishing a job the apprentice was struggling with and the senior turns to us and says 'That there boys is the difference between a futer and a fitter'

storker · 01-07-2019 1:19pm

From my parents' day...

"Like a snot on a bramble" (Something that looks out of place, out on a limb or other precarious position)

"A dumb priest never got a parish" (If you want something, ask for it)

"He has a bit of a want, God love him" (Someone who, while not barking mad or dangerous, gives an impression of eccentricity or of hovering around lower norms of intelligence)

ShlugEireann · 01-07-2019 1:54pm

Don't know if there's a similar thread for annoying phrases but why does everyone call it hollyers now.

"you going on your hollyers?"

"Good time on your hollyers?"

setanta1000 · 01-07-2019 2:36pm

"The name's O'Connor not Onassis" -> we are not flush with cash! (only really works if your name is O'Connor)
"A few cards short of a full deck" -> mentally challenged
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" -> old sailing term allegedly

Deebles McBeebles · 01-07-2019 3:48pm

She'd put a horn on a snowman in August.

irishgrover · 01-07-2019 5:39pm

"take it easy, and you get it constant" - my late granny (born in 1890's, lived into her 90's)

TheBoyConor · 01-07-2019 5:41pm

referring to a pregnant woman as being "stuffed" .

DrPhilG · 01-07-2019 6:17pm

setanta1000 wrote: »

"A few cards short of a full deck" -> mentally challenged

A few cans short of a 6-pack

A few rebel members short of a splinter group

IAMAMORON · 01-07-2019 6:59pm

Your as thick as shít in the neck of a bottle...

Beechwoodspark · 01-07-2019 7:05pm

ShlugEireann wrote: »

Don't know if there's a similar thread for annoying phrases but why does everyone call it hollyers now.

"you going on your hollyers?"

"Good time on your hollyers?"

Even more annoying is hollybops

Nice turn of phrase you've heard

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