I tried this before, but by the time I was finished, the person I was talking to had already left the room.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but the Irish seem to be able to paint a picture with much fewer.

My father would come out with this on occasion. I always found it a good time to make myself scarce.

I continue to be amazed at the vast number of ingenious ways the Irish can string words together either as insults or as blessings (and manage to refer to God or the Virgin Mary in both). They are able to paint pictures with words as perhaps no one else can. This is one I hadn't heard before.