gas-house mick n.
(US) a poor or lower-class Irish person.
[ | Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 47: Sweeney [...] came from the gas-house district of a great city]. | ‘Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz’ in|
Little Caesar (1932) 102: You act like a bunch of gashouse micks. | ||
Iron Man 104: He don’t look clever to me [...] He just looks like a little gas-house mick. |