Are ye startin?

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Heard in Antrim and Dublin

A confrontational challenge meaning "Are you looking for a fight?"

Are ye starting are ye? Go hang yer bollix off the five lamps!

Posh English

Are you looking for a fight, are you? Go suspend your endowments from the nearest lamppost!

Same phrase, other counties

• Dublin

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