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This was every Irish girl's favourite comeback growing up

Flawless. *flicks hair*

REMEMBER WHEN YOU were a kid and you had an arsenal of witty comebacks to standard playground taunts?

Well there was one comeback that all Irish girls loved and used with abandon.

It went like this — if someone called you a pig, you would reply, “That stands for Pretty Irish Girl, so thank you very much!”

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See? It’s a flawless shutdown. There’s no coming back from that.

A quick gander at Twitter reveals that it’s still very much in use as well.

im such a pig (pretty irish girl)
— Heather Ní Cholmáin (@HeatherC4913) October 7, 2012

Heather Ní Cholmáin / Twitter

Whenever anyone calls me a pig I'm like "thanks for calling me a pretty irish girl" and they're confused oops
— jess (@mustbelalalove) June 5, 2013

jess / Twitter

Although some find it all a bit cringeworthy.

Our advice? Own it, gals. Pig and proud.

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YA.

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Amy O'Connor

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