Acting the mickey

exp.

Heard in Waterford and Kerry

Someone doing something that they shouldn't be doing e.g. a ref giving a bad decision at a game, a child playing with a box of matches, a garda pulling up someone for pissing in a dark alley etc.

In use

Put down that fucking chainsaw Johnny, yer only actin de feckin mickey now.

Posh English

Drop that wretched chainsaw at once Johnny, you are merely behaving like an absolute clown.

Same phrase, other counties