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12 distinctly Irish ways to describe your hangover
JUST LIKE THE Eskimos were rumoured to have a hundred words for snow, Irish people have about a billion words to describe their hangovers.
Read on, if you’re feeling well enough. Take it easy now. Don’t strain yourself.
“I’m in Lego”
Cos you’re in bits. Geddit?!
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The horrors
Ah, the horrors. You don’t want to be in there.
Watchcaddy Watchcaddy
“I feel like boiled shite”
Evocative, no?
*Fatemeh* *Fatemeh*
Sick as a small hospital
A serious matter so.
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“I’m puking my ring”
Best not to think about the etymology of this phrase too long.
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Bottle of ghosts
Literary, but effective.
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“I’ve had a bad pint”
Yeah, yeah. Tell it to the judge.
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Brown bottle flu
The best of all euphemisms.
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“I’m in a heap”
You are yeah.
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Mouth like a fur boot
Like a piece of old carpet. 500mls of Lucozade, stat.
splityarn splityarn
“I’ve got The Fear”
The purest form of existential angst known to man.
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In rag order
Ah make us a cup of tea, would you?
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What’s your favourite way to describe a hangover? Let us know in the comments. And feel free to share this if you just can’t even summon up enough energy to describe the pain you’re in. We feel you.
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