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Nice turn of phrase you've heard

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  • #122
    marley1
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭marley1


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


  • #123
    Marz66
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭Marz66


    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.


  • #124
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    "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"


  • #125
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


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

    There's a bucket for every arse.;)


  • #126
    ScoobyDosent
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭ScoobyDosent


    "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 ."


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  • #127
    johnayo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


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

    No good being the richest man in the graveyard.


  • #128
    Jayferg
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭Jayferg


    A wise man carries his coat on a good day


  • #129
    Hal3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Hal3000


    From Chernobyl series

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


  • #130
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


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


  • #131
    pure.conya
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭pure.conya


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


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  • #132
    dartboardio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


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

    Mutton dressed as lamb.


  • #133
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


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


  • #134
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    coolshannagh28 wrote: »
    A horn that could poke rats out of a corn stack.

    Or bayte a donkey out of a field of carrots.


  • #135
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


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


  • #136
    adgib
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭adgib


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


  • #137
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    "You cant ride two horses with one arsė"

    If someone is trying to do too much


  • #138
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 12,781 ✭✭✭✭flazio


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


  • #139
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    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


  • #140
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    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.


  • #141
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


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


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  • #142
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    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'


  • #143
    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭storker


    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)


  • #144
    ShlugEireann
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 47 ✭ShlugEireann


    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?"


  • #145
    setanta1000
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭setanta1000


    "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


  • #146
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


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


  • #147
    irishgrover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


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


  • #148
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    referring to a pregnant woman as being "stuffed" .


  • #149
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,186 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    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


  • #150
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


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


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  • #151
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    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


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