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?!
The horrors
Ah, the horrors. You don’t want to be in there.
“I feel like boiled shite”
Evocative, no?
Sick as a small hospital
A serious matter so.
“I’m puking my ring”
Best not to think about the etymology of this phrase too long.
Bottle of ghosts
Literary, but effective.
“I’ve had a bad pint”
Yeah, yeah. Tell it to the judge.
Brown bottle flu
The best of all euphemisms.
“I’m in a heap”
You are yeah.
Mouth like a fur boot
Like a piece of old carpet. 500mls of Lucozade, stat.
“I’ve got The Fear”
The purest form of existential angst known to man.
In rag order
Ah make us a cup of tea, would you?
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.
