Hows your hammer hangin?

exp.

Heard in Antrim and Clare

A colloquial and irreverent inquiry into one's general state of health or current circumstances.

In use

Howya Tom, hows your hammer hangin? You look like you have been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Posh English

Greetings Thomas, how is your constitution treating you? You appear as though you have been dragged through a hedgerow in reverse.