Patrick Weston Joyce

“ A person is grumbling without cause, making out that he is struggling in some difficulty—such as poverty—and the people will say to him ironically: 'Oh how bad you are.' A universal Irish phrase among high and low.
A person gives a really good present to a girl:—'He didn't affront her by that present.' (Patterson: Antrim and Down.) ”

“ You remark that a certain person has some fault, he is miserly, or extravagant, or dishonest, &c.: and a bystander replies, 'Yes indeed, and 'tisn't to-day or yesterday it happened him'—meaning that it is a fault of long standing.
A tyrannical or unpopular person goes away or dies:—'There's many a dry eye after him.' (Kildare.) ”

“ A man has got a heavy cold from a wetting and says: 'That wetting did me no good,' meaning 'it did me great harm.'
'There's a man outside wants to see you, sir,' says Charlie, our office attendant, a typical southern Irishman. 'What kind is he Charlie? ”