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Putting The Kybosh On Things

March 22, 2018 by Irish American Mom 17 Comments

Irish origins of the word kybosh

“That put the kybosh on things!”  Have you ever heard this phrase?  I know it is one I often heard when I was growing up in Ireland.  My granny loved to use the word “kybosh.” If you came up with an idea she wasn’t too keen on, she might reply by saying …   “We’ll […]

Filed Under: Irish Expressions, Irishisms Tagged With: Cork Slang, Irish Expresions, Irish Gaelic, Irish Language, Irish Slang, Irishisms, Kybosh

Hay Foot, Straw Foot

July 28, 2015 by Irish American Mom 24 Comments

Book cover from 1934 for a Handbook of Irish Dances

“Hay-foot, straw-foot” was a term my late granny loved to use as we marched around her West Cork farm.   “Let’s go east for the pigs. Come on now. Hay foot, straw foot.”   I remember asking granny why she said “hay-foot, straw-foot”, and she explained that years ago in Ireland hay and straw were […]

Filed Under: Irish Expressions, Irishisms, Stories of our Ancestors Tagged With: American Civil War, Hay Foot, Irish Culture, Irish Dancing, Irish phrases, Irish Slang, Irishisms, Jigs and Reels, Language in Ireland, Straw Foot

Between The Jigs And The Reels

October 7, 2014 by Irish American Mom 16 Comments

Soft Irish dancing shoes graphic for between the jigs and the reels

My West Cork granny frequently referred to jigs and reels in her daily speech. Whenever she was a little flustered, in a hurry, or feeling chaotic, she would make an exclamation about Irish dancing, no less. “Between the jigs and the reels, I don’t know whether I’m coming or going.”   Any stranger would believe […]

Filed Under: Irish Expressions Tagged With: Irish Expressions, Irish Slang, Irish Speech, Irishisms, Only In Ireland

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