Best Irish turn of phrase (1 Viewer)

[dqk]

"Crippled with the gout" - not sure what it means but it cracks me up whenever my friend Dave airs it. Might be a Longford thing.

Also putting the word "altogether" at the end of anything ie ""It was fierce mild out altogether"

 

[hermie]

"Crippled with the gout" - not sure what it means but it cracks me up whenever my friend Dave airs it. Might be a Longford thing.

Also putting the word "altogether" at the end of anything ie ""It was fierce mild out altogether"

I like "so it is" at the end of sentences. It's pure red but sort of charming.

Also enjoy our habit of completely nonsensical metaphors spoken as if they're old, established sayings. There's a wind out there that would mow your lawn for ya. That cold would put hair on your boots for ya. And so on and so forth.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

That wind would cut you in two.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

My nan is from Donnycarney and influenced a lot of my speech. My toff pals get great amusement from "Ye shoulda hearn yer man".

 

[therealjohnny]

t's pure red ...

I don't know what this means

So I don't

 

[hermie]

I don't know what this means

So I don't

Ha! Picked it up from my relations so must be a Cavan thing. Red refers to redneck. It's an adjective the townies use to portray their hick brethren further out in the hinterland.

 

[dudley]

i've a fierce goo on me

 

[Theseus Mock]

That'll learn ya.

 

[ann post]

fierce mild weather.

 

[pete]

Swivel

 

[nooleen]

Ha! Picked it up from my relations so must be a Cavan thing. Red refers to redneck. It's an adjective the townies use to portray their hick brethren further out in the hinterland.

i like the way culchies call themselves townies

 

[das funkinstein]

Grand stretch
Happy out
Wind your neck in (I think that might be english)

 

[washingcattle]

Pull't a stroke.

 

[Jerry Twig]

The big Paddy head on em

 

[washingcattle]

In the horrors.

 

[Cormcolash]

Grand stretch in the evening there lads

 

[Scientician 0.8]

"Crippled with the gout" - not sure what it means but it cracks me up whenever my friend Dave airs it. Might be a Longford thing.

Also putting the word "altogether" at the end of anything ie ""It was fierce mild out altogether"

It means they're suffering from gout, a rather painfully debilitating form of athritis I think that fatsos get.

 

[Jerry Twig]

He's a fierce thirst on him

 

[nooleen]

that fatsos get.

apparently not, i heard of someone i know (not a fat bastard) having gout recently and after the requisite jokes it turned out most people just get it for no obvious reason

Think it's the price old buffers pay for gluttony? Read Adam's horrifying story and you'll never mock a gout sufferer again | Mail Online

 

[snakybus]

As far as I know you get gout as a result of deposits of uric acid in your extremities, usually as a result of a rich diet and lots of brandy, red wine and other tannin-rich beverages. I think. So basically yeah, yer foot is full of piss, and possibly vinegar.

Putting "een" at the end of things.

"I was in the tractoreen, I turned onto the roadeen and who was there but Pateen and Gerreen"