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    Janey Mackers! We went to the four-penny rush every Saturday up till 1949. usually the Leinster, Rialto, Inchicore, Phoenix, Lyric, and Tivoli cinemas etc.

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    Look at the cut of ya. Like three sheets to the wind..
    I'll knock yer block of.
    Put a bush in the gap. (close the door)
    Pull your socks up.
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    [SIZE="3"][COLOR="Red"]Scrubber.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

    Coarse youngish woman with large arse in short skirt,stubby legs and beehive hairstyle.
    Refers to Dublin female factory workers and cleaners.

    Replaced not so successfully with

    [COLOR="Red"]Slapper.[/COLOR]

    Inward migration has killed off all these phrases.
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    Spin spout or black out.

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    "don't put a jew's arse on it" when passing a cigarette around the bike shed, meaning don't leave too much saliva on the butt.
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    I hate to tell you Field Marshal, but I have heard every one of the phrases or words you have posted used within the last 6 months.

    On the other hand, my grandmother, who was from east Donegal, used to refer affectionately to people as being as daycent [decent] a hoor as ever you stuck a grape in.

    As a child this confused me terribly and produced strange images in my head, me not realizing a grape was a farm implement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chrisco View Post
    I hate to tell you Field Marshal, but I have heard every one of the phrases or words you have posted used within the last 6 months.

    On the other hand, my grandmother, who was from east Donegal, used to refer affectionately to people as being as daycent [decent] a hoor as ever you stuck a grape in.

    As a child this confused me terribly and produced strange images in my head, me not realizing a grape was a farm implement.
    Well heres one you havent heard in the last 6 months

    [SIZE="4"][COLOR="Red"]Nip down to the grocers and get me ten fags[/SIZE][/COLOR]

    Id better xplain to the pc brigade that fags are cigarrettes.
    [COLOR="Red"]Grocer[/COLOR][defunct] is the local convenience store not [COLOR="Red"]manned[/COLOR][defunct] by a [COLOR="Red"]shopkeeper[/COLOR][defunct.

    The nanny health brigade increased cigarrette consumption by banning the sales of [COLOR="Red"]packets of ten cigarrettes[/COLOR][defunct] thus ensuring that smokers always had plenty of twenty pack fags on demand in their pockets.
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    Drink related : " I've a thirst on me I wouldn't sell for half a crown. "

    " As dry as a witch's tit. "

    " He'd drink it out of a wellington boot. " (Usually pronounced " wellikin". )

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Field Marshal View Post
    [SIZE="3"][COLOR="Red"]Scrubber.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

    Coarse youngish woman with large arse in short skirt,stubby legs and beehive hairstyle.
    Refers to Dublin female factory workers and cleaners.

    Replaced not so successfully with

    [COLOR="Red"]Slapper.[/COLOR]

    Inward migration has killed off all these phrases.
    Brasser also fits the bill there I think.

    Goin' out tonight wi' me moth.

    Go on ourra dat = are you joking?

    Gerrup the yard there's a smell a hay off yeh.
    We are "they"

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