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[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 26 Oct. 4/1: Read the Side-Splitting Adventures of Darby Durken, P.L.G.
at side-splitting, adj.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 18 Sept. 5/5: Life - and Love - on the Dole. He interviewed the ‘New Zealand man’ at the ‘Buroo,’ but found it was ‘no go.’ He is in an unwanted category.
at buroo, n.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 11 June 20/3: His fans are very loyal — they also write letters when I give him stick.
at give someone (some) stick (v.) under stick, n.
[Ire] Irish. Indep. 7 Jan. 19/4: Hopefully it would speed up the long overdue death of the stuffy-nosed , upper-class, city image which has been associated with rugby.
at stuffy, adj.1
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 10 Jan. 9/4: He [i.e. Gerry Anderson] overcame the problem of how to describe the city to keep both sides of the community happy — it became Derry/Londonderry and later just ‘Stroke City’.
at Stroke City, n.
[Ire] Irish. Indep. 30 June 24/5: Australians have a term for begrudgers who cut down to size anyone who’s seen as standing too tall: ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’.
at tall poppy (n.) under tall, adj.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 22 June 15/1: [headline] What a little squirt (or why do we all hate Tom Cruise?).
at squirt, n.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 2 Oct. 6/6: [headline] Town chiefs kick up a stink over ‘sickening’ sewage stench.
at kick up a stink (v.) under stink, n.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 16 May 8/7: Stardust victims believe they are being stonewalled by the Government in their attempt to get a new public inquiry.
at stonewall, v.
[Ire] Irish Indep. (Dublin) 17 Feb. 14/5: That kind of thick as pigshit.
at ...pigshit under thick as..., adj.
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