Little fart iv a lad

phr.

Heard in Tipperary

A small fellow with an inflated sense of his own importance.

In use

Don't mind him shur he's only a little fart iv a lad, an you needent be in dred of antinn.

Posh English

Pay the diminutive popinjay no heed for he is merely a small fellow with grand notions, and you need be in terror of nothing whatever.