Got a slap of the ugly stick
Heard in Cork and Kerry
An unattractive person, especially one considered to have been rendered so by a notional blow from an implement of ugliness.
Jez id say she got a slap off the ugly stick." "She got some slap of the ugly stick.
Upon my word, I fancy she was smitten by the cudgel of homeliness.
Same phrase, other counties
- Kerry (not in the dictionary)