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Originally Posted by femmefatale
Ha. Good one. I'm going to use that one the first chance I get.
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I'm sure it was said as a term of endearment Baron.
On being mean : " Ya wouldn't see her heart on a white plate."
" That one ! She wouldn't give ya the itch. "
" We'll thresh Friday or Friday week. (pronounced thrash.) "
Toibín used to do a routine about the cute Cavan man. He had him eating his dinner out of the drawer in the kitchen table in case somebody called to the house at grub time.
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"He's the only man I know could peel an orange in his pocket" - another Niall Toibín line to describe a miser.
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner'?
"he wouldn't give ya the steam off his p*ss"...was always a fav!!
And my fav archiac phrase from the celtic tiger.....actually said to me and hubby...."you are seriously under-borrowed"...and thankfully we still are!!!
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey.
Meanness: "That one would cover half of Mount Leinster with a pound of butter."
Exaggeration; "If a mouse passed through Croghan it would be an elephant by
Tyrrellspass".
And a very local one ! I haven't a clue what it means, except that it seems to be shouted by inebriated youths for want of something better to say: "Up she flew and the cock flattened her"
T'wasn't. I have ongoing hassle with a local family of petty criminals one of whom assaulted me last year when I came on him up to no good in my yard. He's 15 and was drunk at the time. It was his younger brother who conferred the title on me.I'm sure it was said as a term of endearment Baron.
Of an astute person - "There's no flies on that lad, or if there is they're paying rent."
"Short arms and long pockets".
Never let the best be the enemy of the good.
"Get up the yard!!"
"get them of yea the ragman is coming"
"I will fu**ing rupture ya!!"
"stop the lights!!"
and even "get up the yard thers a smell of hay"
also a "spa" was a term of insult as was a "balllooba", as in "ya bleeden balloba" that was the name of the tribe which attacked and killed the Irish troops in the Congo back in 1960something. For a long while after "balloba" was a common insult at lest in Dublin.
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