The head on him and the price a turnips

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Heard in Roscommon

Look at the 'cut' of him, usually addressed to someone who looks hungover/ has a puss on them or has a questionable sense of hairstyle.

Look at the head on your man and the price a turnips, he must have been on the tear last night.

Posh English

Observe the dreadful visage upon that chap, he must have been on a thoroughly uproarious bender last night.

Related terms

• The head on ya and the price of turnips!You look rather silly.
• The head on you and the price of cabbageA way of commenting on how someone looks, bit like 'the state of ya.
• The head on him and the price a cabbageAn inflated sense of one's own importance; swollen-headed pride.
• Look at the cut of yeAn expression remarking that someone looks extremely untidy or dishevelled.
• TurnipsAn expression of bemused disapproval at the state or appearance of a fellow.
• I haven't got the price of a knickersTo be entirely without money, completely skint.