Meanings
alternative yer man
- IrelandThat man, the man in question.
"What did yer man want?" "Dunno, couldn't understand him."
2008, Andrew Higgins Wyndham, Re-imagining Ireland, page 293 more examples
... from the work of John Gilroy, whose animal cartoons and painful puns are still used to this day, to modern masterpieces such as the surfing ad (which led the Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore to ponder "how yer man stayed up on that surfboard after fourteen pints of stout").
2002, Geoff Wallis, Mark Connolly, Margaret Greenwood, The Rough Guide to Dublin, page 122No, your man there with the kind of hooded eyes, talking to Tom O'Reilly. That's Frank Purcell, the general secretary.
2004, May O'Brien, Clouds on My Windows: A Dublin Memoir, page 151Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement.
2005, John Doyle, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, page 81
Translations
Irish mo dhuine
- mo dhuinethat man, the man in question
Cite this entry
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