(MacCall: Wexford.)
When a man inherits some failing from his parents, 'He didn't catch it in the wind'—'It wasn't off the wind he took it.' (Moran: Carlow.)
When a man declines to talk with or discuss matters with another, he says 'I owe you no discourse'—used in a more or less offensive sense—and heard all through Ireland.
When a person shows himself very cute and clever another says to him 'Who let you out?'—an ironical expression of fun: as much as to say that he must have been confined in an asylum as a confirmed fool. (Moran: Carlow.)
When a person for any reason feels elated, he says 'I wouldn't call the king my uncle.' ('Knocknagow'; but heard everywhere in Ireland.)
When a person who is kind enough while he is with
you grows careless about you once he goes away:—'Out of sight out of mind.'
To go with your finger in your mouth is to go on a fool's errand, to go without exactly knowing why you are going—without knowing particulars.
When a person singing a song has to stop up because he forgets the next verse, he says (mostly in joke) 'there's a hole in the ballad'—throwing the blame on the old ballad sheet on which the words were imperfect on account of a big hole.
Searching for some small article where it is hard to find it among a lot of other things is 'looking for a needle in a bundle of straw.'