Archaic phrases

[The Field Marshal]

"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"

very good.

How bout a cuppa [COLOR="Red"]cha[/COLOR]?

[original chinese word for tea used in 50,s Dublin , now rarely used]

[Rich OC]

very good.

How bout a cuppa [COLOR=Red]cha[/COLOR]?

[original chinese word for tea used in 50,s Dublin , now rarely used]

And the sale of breakfast rolls has gone through the floor as well, that and the destination spa.

[Gimpanzee]

Flange? Whats that mean

Good question.

"She had a flange on her like a wizards sleeve. It was like throwing a sausage down a hallway"

[Fir Bolg]

Another Cavan one;
'clatty' = dirty
'he's a fierce clatty bastard'
could be either he's full of dirty jokes or he has a personal hygiene problem..

Dunno if clatty is uniquely Cavan. There used to be a nightclub in Glasgow called Cleopatra's and everybody called it Clatty Pat's!

[Fir Bolg]

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.

If i remember correctly the first time I saw/heard of the fuzz was in novel The Outsiders by Susan Hinton which was originally published in the 60's. Its an american based story so I'm sure the origin of this term is in the states.

[louis bernard]

Fianna Fáil The republican party.

[Mitsui2]

I believe she was calling you a prostitutes vagina

Actually not. A "melt" is (FAIK) a derogotary term - going back to medieveal times I think - for a child born out of wedlock.

[Mitsui2]

Deadly - meaning something really good

Used to confuse the hell out of my country cousins.

Really only hear it now in the all encompassing "Deadly Buzz"

Never really understood how this worked, but "deadly" had the exact same meaning in mid-Wexford. And that really used to confuse the hell out of people - even people who wouldn't have been confused by it if they'd heard it used by a Dub!

[Mitsui2]

[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?

Like "melt", I think - another word for a b"stard (in the legal sense). Both words very old.

[The Field Marshal]

Never really understood how this worked, but "deadly" had the exact same meaning in mid-Wexford. And that really used to confuse the hell out of people - even people who wouldn't have been confused by it if they'd heard it used by a Dub!

Is "deadly" or[ "diddlay" with brogue] archaic though.

Its still common enough is it not?

Not sure it was that common in Dublin. Always regrded it as very much a country expression.