Beef to the heel like a Mullingar heifer

exp.

Heard in Westmeath, Galway, Antrim, Down and Dublin

Refers to a girl with a bit of meat (mayte) on her bones. In today's world she would be said to have cankles (i.e. can't tell where her calf muscles end and her ankles begin).

In use

Now das the kind of yungwan I'm into, look at her biys, she's beef to the heel like a Mullingar heifer!

Posh English

Now that is precisely the sort of young lady I fancy, look at her chaps, she is rather sturdily proportioned about the ankles!

Same phrase, other counties

  • Galway (not in the dictionary)