How's your granny for turf

exp.

Heard in Tipperary

A greeting meaning "how are you". Also used, somewhat improbably, as a chat-up line.

Well missus how's your granny for turf" "Chat up line for the ladies

Posh English

Good evening madam, how are you this fine evening. A most efficacious chat-up line for the ladies.

Related terms

• Up ta her hole in coalA witty retort to the question "how's your granny for turf", implying that everything is…
• Cutting turfEuphemism describing the act of defecating, metaphorically speaking. Otherwise known as…
• Goin on the turf patrolSmoking cannabis in a bog with rural friends.
• Have a head like a lump of wet turfTo be very ugly.
• Turf turf turfPeat, the fuel we burn on fires to keep warm and dry mother's undergarments.
• Ya think he/she was dressed with a turf grapeUsed to describe a person that dressed untidy wearing badly fitted or worn clothes.