I love old fashioned words and expressions and regional expressions...ok...words BECKONS is a good one..re expressions HE HAS TICKETS ON HIMSELF ...Guess what that means ( it is antipodean)

Give us a hint

it means someone who has a high opinion of himself.

Next one ;
Don't come the raw prawn with me

Guessing here... don't try to fool me??

Don't feed me something I don't want, as in, stop BS'ing me?

I will take the raw prawns and throw them in a pan full of butter, onions, garlic, bell peppers, celery and a bit of orange peel, sauteeing them until they are nice and pik.

what time is dinner??*lol*

As soon as I get those prawns.

There's a prawn shop, on a corner, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

- in case you're stuck for a supply.


Back on topic (almost)
http://homepage.eircom.net/~nobyrne/irish_expressions.htm
- more sayings than expressions of speech.


A bit more on topic
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/irishaccent/irishaccent3.html

And
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Humanities/Varieties-of-English-4560.html

That's where I hocked my ham.

He had a face on him.


One my wife overheard
- "You're as handy as a small saucepan."
This meant "very handy".

Sure it wasn't you're handy witha small saucepan could have been a Gordon Ramsey moment ...boom boom?

And yea to various prawn theories.

What about

Shot through like a Bondi Tram!!!!

Apparently, the Bondi Tram runs through parts of Sydney and has been around since the 1800's. The assumption would be that it's fast (faster than the bus?)

Well you might think so but it is more to do with making a hasty departure or even an unexpected one often in the context of where is he off to and is someone in pursuit.

Another I hear you shout (or is that enough...)

BYO Restaraunt

Similar to the kiwi ones, "Done a runner" and "Gone bush".

I like the phrase "'Fair to middlin'".. I remember my grandma, when asked how are you? or how you doing? She answer "Fair to Middlin'."

I've also heard the phrase 'You're as handy as a pocket on a shirt'... meaning you are very handy..

My Ma use to have a saying... "Patience and perserverance took a snail to Jerusalem". *L* Even now, I still wonder...why the heck would the snail want to go to Jerusalem! *L*

"I'm grand!"
- in response to "How are you?"

I'm not sure if this a Cork-rooted expression.
People from other parts are inclined to slag us over it.

"Slag" ?
- to make fun of in a purely friendly way (mostly).
Ah, we're only slaggin'

My ancestors were from round Cloakilty way so Acc do you think they would have seen people from Cork City to be city slickers ?

I wonder if there is any Clonakilty slang..........

I don't know what Clon people called us city boys/girls.

Goggle is you friend.
'Clonakilty' is Cockney rhyming slang for 'Guilty'?? Didn't know that!


More Cork slang:
http://www.thesraid.com/index.php/2006/07/19/the-improved-cork-slang/

A collection of Irish slang:
http://www.slang.ie/index.php?county=Cork&entry=clon&letter=C

Acc did you call them Croppy Boys?

In a word........

Nope!


But that's not to say that others didn't :)