Ya'd be as well

phr.

Heard in Wicklow

If something is hard to do, it would be best served to do something esle.

In use

John: "You going to the tractor pull tonight Mick?" Mick: "Ya'd be as well off picking stones as going to that shite!"

Posh English

You would be far wiser clearing stones from a field than attending that dreadful rubbish!