The sun's been absolutely splittin' the stones, a phrase that comes from the Irish 'á an ghrian ag scoilteadh na gcloch’. You dig? Another slang phrase that may - or, more likely, may not ...

“How the Irish Invented Slang,” by Dan Cassidy. The influence of the Irish Gaelic on English that persists today. “The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America,” ed. by Michael Glazie ...