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  • Alan Rossiter
    Participant

    I’ve worked in various places around the south east and in Leixlip over the last few years with varied nationalities but the Irish, God love us, have the funniest expressions for, well, you’ll get the flow below.

    Add yours in.

    He/She had a face like…

    …a bulldog chewing a wasp
    …a bulldog lickin’ p*** off a nettle
    …a bag of hatchets
    …a well slapped a**e

    (Explaining the difficulty of the task)

    It was like herding cats
    It was like pushing a rope

    He/She was as much use as…

    …a blue light on a donkey
    …t**s on a bull

    He/She was so good he/she could s*** blue lights

    He was so fast he nearly passed himself by.

    He could rob the milk from your tea.

    I found that Limerick expressions far outshone others…and had a common reference to blue lights…odd, I thought!

    Alan.

    joe_elway
    Participant

    Worked with this girl years ago. Every guy in the office used to drool over her. We all thought she was this quiet, gentle little thing. I’m in the car with her coming back from lunch, we’re talking about cars and she suddenly says … “that car hasn’t enough power to pull a

    RavenAsh
    Member

    If you fall and break your legs don’t come running to me :lol:

    Expresbro
    Participant

    About as welcome as a fart in an elevator :lol:

    DenverDoll
    Participant

    :lol: funny stuff…

    Not to mention how you all make up words………….

    GrahamB
    Participant

    My mums fav

    “come here till I smack ye”

    GrahamB
    Participant

    Viewer discretion is advised.
    The following webiste contains wlanguage of a offensive nature.
    ( I’m not joking – some of this stuff actually shocked ME )
    You enter at your own risk.

    What must the rest of the world think of us with sites like this one.

    http://www.irishslang.net/


    learn to swear like the Irish

    Equinox
    Participant

    The best one I can remember when I was a kid was,

    Me – Can I have some lemonade?

    My Mum – I’ll lemonade you!! :?

    Me – Can I buy some sweets?

    My Mum – I’ll sweets you!! :?

    Has anybody caught them selfs saying stuff like this to their kids??

    Podge
    Member

    My favorite.

    You’re about as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking competition.

    Pixelle
    Member

    Memory jogged by Irishwonkafan:-

    (Explaining the difficulty of the task)

    It was like herding mice at a crossroads.

    Rob
    Member

    When given disapproving looks for breaking wind…

    “It’s a sad arse that can’t rejoice”

    Rob.

    PeteTheBloke
    Member

    She had a fiss on her like a camel chewing a biscuit

    No’ two pounds of her going the wan direction (She’s fat)

    I coulda killed dead thangs (I wasn’t happy)

    Are ye talkin’ to me or chewin’ a brick? (I don’t much like the way you are addressing me)

    You’re lookin’ well mended (you’ve put on an awful lot of weight)

    Alan Rossiter
    Participant

    Triggered by Pete…[edit] by Petes entries :oops:

    I’m not saying she’s fat but…

    …when she went sun bathing Greenpeace came in and towed her back out to sea
    …when she stepped on a dogs tail, it died

    Alan.

    PeteTheBloke
    Member

    Just remembered this one, which made me laugh a lot when I heard it:

    You’d trample babies to get away from him (he’s a bore)

    GrahamB
    Participant

    Heard this one on TV last night.

    “May you get to heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead” :twisted:

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