Sayings with reference to one’s rear end!

‘She has a face on her like a well-skelped a**e’

Not dissimilar to .. ‘a face on her like wan chewing wasps!’

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‘Here’s me head: me a**e is coming!’

This latter was often said, even in my youth, of those who walked bent-forward!

‘He’s running around like a blue-a**ed fly!’

‘Ye’re as bad as Yella Kate who showed her a**e to the train!’

This particular Kathleen was espied from a passing train, relieving herself in the bushes! Said of one walking about the house less than fully-clothed!

‘He’s not worth the full of me a**e of green gooseberries’ [I don’t rate him highly!]

‘He doesn’t know his a**e from his elbow’ - as above!

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The Pahvee boasted of the special properties of the cloth he sold:

‘It’ll wash like a child’s a**e, and wear like a woman’s tongue!’

The modern woman who asks rhetorically, ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ would have had short shrift in times gone by!!

‘She’s an a**e on her like a Drogheda car!

Alternative comparatives included .. like the back of a bus! .. like our house!’

A less critical expression relating to a man with a small bum!

‘’He’s an a**e on him like two eggs in a handkerchief!’