Phrases
What's the craic?
How are you?
Locked
I'm going to get locked at the party tonight.
Drunk
Sound
Do you know my friend Simon. You'd like him, he's sound. (or dead sound)
(Really) nice or likeable
Sambo
Will you go to the cafe and pick me up a sambo?
Sandwich
The Black Stuff
I'll have a pint of the black stuff please.Guinness
Bad Dose
I've got a bad dose, I won't be able to make it to work today.
Sick
Leg it!
The police are coming... Leg it!
Run
away with the fairies
She never pays attention, she's away with the fairies
a person who always daydreams
Jacks
Will you watch my things, I'm going to the jacks.
Toilet
Deadly
I went to Barcelona last weekend, it was deadly
amazing / great
the spit of
He's the spit of his brother
looks (very) like
Acting the maggot
My son is always acting the maggot.
Fooling/messing around
Culchie / Bogger
A: I don't like living in the city, it's too busy.
B: Of course you'd say that, you're a bogger.
Someone who comes from the countryside
Gaff
I will pop over to your gaff later
house/apartment
Banjaxed
That chair is banjaxed, sit here.
Broken
Take the weight off
Come in out of the cold and take the weight off.
Sit down
shifting / snogging
Did you get the shift / snog last night?
Kissing
Oul Lad / Oul Wan
Will ya give your oul wan a call. She was looking for ya.
Father / Mother
Hole in the wall
I can't pay you now, I have to go get money from the Hole in the wall
ATM
On their way out
A: How is your Dad getting on?
B: He could be better, he's on the way out.
Dying
Come here to me.
Come here to me and let me tell you something.
Listen up
throwing shapes
I was throwing shapes in the bar last night.
Showing off / dancing
Dosser
John is a real dosser, I never get any work done when he's around.
Someine who's always messing
Yoke
Please pass me that yoke over there.
any object when you can't think of the name
You could skin a cat out there
I don't want to go outside right now, you could skin a cat out there
Very Very cold