English: He’s a gammy sham
Collected: Askeaton, Co. Limerick, Ireland (12-20-2018)
Origin: Gammy is slang for “flawed” or “useless.” Sham is slang for “mate.”
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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
121618-025
English: You’re as useless as tits on a snake
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: Heard in Pittsburgh, PA from a Canadian.
121618-009
English: You’re as useful as a pair of tits on a goldfish
Collected: Amsterdam, Netherlands (12-16-2018)
Origin: He used to work in an Irish pub in Amsterdam and heard it there
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Finnish: Pyörii kuin puolukka pillussa
English: twirling like a lingonberry in a vagina.
collected: Helsinki, Finland (01-31-2016)
origin: Something you say to someone who is acting aimless or being useless. It is a reference to a story in the Kalevala, the national epic poem of Finland, in which a virgin, Marjatta, is immaculately impregnated by a lingonberry.
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“You’re about as useful as a goat in a cabbage patch”
collected: Pittsburgh, Polish Hill neighborhood (9-17-14)
origin: one of her dad’s sayings (Pittsburgh)
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“You’re as useful as balls on a priest”
collected: Belfast, Northern Ireland (9-7-13)
origin: common Belfast saying
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“You’re as useful as a pair of sunglasses on a guy with no ears”
collected: Belfast, Northern Ireland (9-7-13)
origin: common Belfast saying
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“You’re as useful as a chocolate teapot”
collected: Belfast, Northern Ireland (9-7-13)
origin: common Belfast saying
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“You’re as useful as a bag of cats”
collected: Belfast, Northern Ireland (9-7-13)
origin: heard it from her mother in Galway