The Irish are famous for flattery, but also for the bitter word when it suits. This is what happens when they combine the two.
“His brother was worse”
When the priest at a Kerry funeral asked someone to say anything nice about the unpopular deceased and this was the only response.
“He’d jump over ten naked women to get to the bar”
Describing an acquaintance and his love for the hard stuff.
“Ah sure you’re not the worst of them”
Usually uttered by Irish fathers to sons as their way to pass on a compliment.
“I love your hair color, especially the roots’
A bitchy Irish woman to another.
“You’re a very modest man, sure you have a lot to be modest about”
Comment aimed at a successful neighbor usually.
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“We’re a fair race we never speak well of each other”
Writer George Bernard Shaw on his own people.
“The problem with the Irish is when they are not drunk they are sober”
Attributed to various writers including W.B. Yeats.
“So what first attracted you to the millionaire?”
Comment made when a young woman bags a rich old guy.
“He’s just a little slow, it only takes him an hour and a half to watch ’60 Minutes’
Usually uttered about a neighbor’s child.
“Your idea of romance is popping the beer can away from my face."
Woman overheard on a date with the local Irish bar fly.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.DrTrelawney | Jul 22, 2011, 02:41 PM EDT
Oh for goodness sake. The "much to be modest about line" was famously said by Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee. In what possible sense are any of these Irish. The millionaire line was Caroline Aherne on Debbie McGee. This is ridiculous.
Madeliene | Jul 22, 2011, 09:44 AM EDT
My Da used to say "I'm so hungry, I could eat a childs arse through a chair" LOL
Bocktherobber | Jul 18, 2011, 05:51 PM EDT
emanresu -- What makes you say that?
emanresu | Jul 18, 2011, 02:19 PM EDT
Ohhh, Bocktherobber, you must be half English
mountainyetti | Jul 18, 2011, 12:57 PM EDT
My grandmother was so good at this, she rarely cracked a smile but her eyes twinkled. In later years, though, it made her grumpy, never seeing the good full on.
Liam3494 | Jul 18, 2011, 12:27 PM EDT
Sometimes I wish I was a Fake Irishman, so I could believe this tripe.... Instead of cringing all the time.... Umm 60 Minutes? Is that not an American programme?
Bocktherobber | Jul 18, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT
Who makes up this fake Irish nonsense? For the record, "A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about" is attributed to Winston Churchill, a man not famous for his Irishness.
davelar | Jul 18, 2011, 11:02 AM EDT
Well, he didn't lick it off the floor!
torbreezy | Jul 18, 2011, 09:19 AM EDT
Ah sure he was very, very good to his mother: he rarely went home . . . .