Archaic phrases

[The Field Marshal]

[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]Drawers.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

"Wheres me drawers''?

Underwear, usually female but could be male.

"Up and down like a hewers drawers" indicating rapid movement as in a prostitutes knickers.

Certainly "Victorias Drawers" does not have the same cachet as" Victorias Secret".

Might come from to draw on over the legs.

Long Johns [another one gone]

[Chrisco]

I wonder if posters would be interested in posting words and expressions that were once common but have fallen into disuse



[SIZE="5"][COLOR="Red"]eg :The Fuzz.[/COLOR][/SIZE]





Old dublin word for the cops.
Eg.I got grabbed by the fuzz.

It also meant pubic hair so many double entendres occurred

Nothing particularly Dublin or archaic about that expression at all; it is commonly used in London and 'Caught By the Fuzz' was the name of a Supergrass song in the mid 1990s.

[Chrisco]

[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]Drawers.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

"Wheres me drawers''?

Underwear, usually female but could be male.

"Up and down like a hewers drawers" indicating rapid movement as in a prostitutes knickers.

Certainly "Victorias Drawers" does not have the same cachet as" Victorias Secret".

Might come from to draw on over the legs.

Long Johns [another one gone]

What age are you Field Marshal?

[Supermanpolitician]

Might I suggest "Soft Landing"?

[Rich OC]

[COLOR=Red][SIZE=3]Drawers.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

"Wheres me drawers''?

Underwear, usually female but could be male.

"Up and down like a hewers drawers" indicating rapid movement as in a prostitutes knickers.

Certainly "Victorias Drawers" does not have the same cachet as" Victorias Secret".

Might come from to draw on over the legs.

Long Johns [another one gone]

Here Ma, wheres me cacks?

[The Field Marshal]

[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="3"]Get[/SIZE][/COLOR]

Go way ye get ye.

get sometimes pronounced git.

"A bit of a get that fella"

Little get,little git.

Term of opprobrium.

Someone on the make.
Ill begotten?

[Gimpanzee]

Monkey bath.

When you're climbing into the bath and the water is borderline too hot and at first contact between water surface and scrotum/flange/buttocks forces a sharp emission of 'oo ooh --aah ahh ah' vocal sounds from the larynx attached to aforementioned bodily parts.

Usage:
Did you have a bath dear?

Yes, a proper monkey bath it was. Red as a radish I was.


Flange... there's another on I haven't heard in a while.

[MsAnneThrope]

I wonder if posters would be interested in posting words and expressions that were once common but have fallen into disuse

"100% mortgages"

"Seniors! Free up the equity in your home!"

"Hiiiiiiiiiiii, I'm Neville Knott!"

"Don't be left out! Don't miss the Bulgarian Property Expo this weekend at the RDS!"

"I am increasing the top rate tax band by €2,600. I commend the budget to the house"

"We have the best economy in the world"

"Aer Lingus to expand services to Dubai"

"Waiting list at Brown Thomas for €12,000 Hermes handbags"

"Skinny decaf Latte please" (now a 'mug o' tae there luv')

"They were at the back of the plane in economy class"

"We're going by helicopter"

"Diarmuid Gavin cuts our grass"

[The Field Marshal]

Monkey bath.

When you're climbing into the bath and the water is borderline too hot and at first contact between water surface and scrotum/flange/buttocks forces a sharp emission of 'oo ooh --aah ahh ah' vocal sounds from the larynx attached to aforementioned bodily parts.

Usage:
Did you have a bath dear?

Yes, a proper monkey bath it was. Red as a radish I was.


Flange... there's another on I haven't heard in a while.

Flange? Whats that mean

[Truth.ie]

"Eenie meenie, Miney mo,
Catch a n*gger by his toe...." We used to sing this in class at school.
Sweet jesus.