English: Beauty’s only skin deep, but someone peeled him.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common banter between friends
Tag Archives: slagging
122018-025
English: Everyone has a right to be ugly, but you abuse it.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common banter between friends
122018-022
English: He had a head on him like a bag of spanners.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common Irish slagging used to call someone ugly. A spanner is a wrench.
122018-021
English: If there was work in the bed, he’d sleep on the floor.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common Irish slagging.
122018-020
English: He’s as thick as flour dip.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common Irish slagging.
122018-019
English: He should be shot with a knob of his own shit.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: She heard it from her mother-in-law, discussing a lazy person.
122018-018
English: He’s only a bungalow. He has nothing on top.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: A way to say someone doesn’t have brains. You’d hear it used when you’d be “cutting up” somebody.
122018-012
English: You’re as thick as two short planks.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common Irish saying/slagging
122018-011
English: You’ve got a face that would sink a thousand ships.
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Speculates that it is a reference to Helen of Troy. Heard it as a child from her brother, who was always slagging her off.
122018-007
English: You’re as useful as a bicycle to a goldfish
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Common saying/slagging. Something she’d say to her kids