Local Expressions
1 . . Blow-in = one who visits Skerries casually and decides to remain.
2 . . Out-come-airs = tripper.
3 . . I'm falling out of my standing with the hunger.
4 . . He`s cut on the bias = In a bad humour.
5 . . Refugees = those who come
down in the world and
settle in Skerries.
6 . . It put no
seam on me = Doesn`t worry me.
7 . . Eye-oppenses
= Smart-alecs.
8 . . Wydoes (or
chancers) = irresponsible persons.
9 . . There's no blinding in
her = couldn't be cheated.
10
Highflier = spendthrift
11 Barney = one who won't himself to be cheated.
12 She's
dangerous = ugly beyond hope of improvement
14 An
empty sack can't stand, but a full one can't bend.
15
I'm so mad I could tear paper.
7 8
Collection of Riddles
1 . . It went to America and it stopped there
and it came home
because it did not go there.
2 . . If you lost a half-crown and found it
again what would be
the first thing you would do?
3 . . I went to the wood and I got it and I sat
down to look for it
and I brought it home because I could not find it.
4 . . A little man sitting behind a wall eats all he gets and drinks nothing.
5 . . What is it a rich man wants, a poor man
has, a blind man sees,
a deaf man hears?
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Michael Grimes, Balbriggan Rd . . . (BNS, 1937-`38)