The head on you and the price of cabbage

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Heard in Longford

A way of commenting on how someone looks, bit like 'the state of ya.

Jaysus look at the head on you and the price of cabbage!

Posh English

Good heavens, just look at the state of your countenance and the cost of vegetables.

Related terms

• The head on him and the price a cabbageAn inflated sense of one's own importance; swollen-headed pride.
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• Bate the pig outta da cabbageI am going home to have bacon and cabbage for dinner.
• The head on ya and the price of turnips!You look rather silly.
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• Sit on that and priceTriumphant phrase used when one gains the upper hand in an argument.