Wednesday is words of wisdom day on the blog. For March, I’ve been sharing Irish blessings, curses, and sayings.

Today I’ve a chart of Irish slang for you. The Irish do have a way with words.
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<td width="399"><strong>a useless fellow</strong></td>
<td width="399">He's fit to mind mice at a crossroads.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>someone who committed some small fault</strong></td>
<td width="399">'Tis only a stepmother would blame you.’</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a tall, large woman</strong></td>
<td width="399">That's a fine doorful of a woman.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a gossiper</strong></td>
<td width="399">She has a tongue that would clip a hedge.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a poor, thin creature</strong></td>
<td width="399">The breath is only just in and out of him, and the grass doesn't know of him walking over it.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a coarse, ill-mannered person using poor language</strong></td>
<td width="399">What would you expect out of a pig but a grunt?</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>trying to change a stubborn person's mind</strong></td>
<td width="399">You might as well be whistling jigs to a milestone.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>very bad music</strong></td>
<td width="399">Aw, that's the tune the old cow died of.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>one who overstays their welcome</strong></td>
<td width="399">If that man went to a wedding, he'd stay for the christening.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a talkative person</strong></td>
<td width="399">That man would talk the teeth out of a saw.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a person who paid too much for a cow</strong></td>
<td width="399">He bought every hair in her tail.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a clever thief</strong></td>
<td width="399">He'd steal the sugar out of your punch.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>praise of strong whiskey</strong></td>
<td width="399">I felt it like a torchlight procession going down my throat.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>a woman who made a bad marriage</strong></td>
<td width="399">She burnt her coal and did not warm herself.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>bad aim in shooting</strong></td>
<td width="399">He wouldn't hit a hole in a ladder.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>an impish child</strong></td>
<td width="399">That one suffers from a double dose of original sin.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>an unfortunate one</strong></td>
<td width="399">He is always in the field when luck is on the road.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>very wet weather</strong></td>
<td width="399">It's a fine day for young ducks.</td>
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<td width="399"><strong>someone who always plans carefully</strong></td>
<td width="399">If he's not fishing he's mending his nets.</td>
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