When two cars have a minor collision, I refer to it as a “tip” or even “a little tip”. Mr Waffle has said that he has never heard anyone else say this and it must be a Cork expression. Can this be possible? Everyone in Cork I checked with was aware of the expression but no Dubliners. Anyone else use this outside the Pale or further afield? Answers appreciated; I’m at the desk-based research stage of this argument.
I can confirm it is an expression regularly deployed in Limerick, as in: ‘he/she had a bit of a tip’.
I can confirm that it’s an expression used regularly in Limerick, as in ‘he/she had a bit of a tip’.
Way beyond the Pale here in Tx, US. We call it a bumper thumper (contact but resulting in little or no damage), as opposed to a fender bender (damaged, but driveable.)
not in Shropshire or anywhere else that I’ve lived
No idea on ‘bit of a tip’ but I’ve noticed on the Dublin bike blog that people are accused of ‘breaking’ red lights rather than ‘running’ them – is this a Dublin thing or Ireland wide?
Heard it all the time growing up in Kerry
I’m from Cavan, from an area which is supposed to have been variously inside or outside the Pale during different eras, and I’m familiar with the expression and would use it myself. (I’d also use it for a collision with a gatepost or similar.)
Never heard it before. A bit of tip is how I’d describe my kitchen.
Well thank you all very much. Prima facie, it looks like an Irish outside the Pale thing (subject to Jennifer’s location being inside the Pale or abroad and Cavan being outside – which I would certainly say it is). Seems particularly popular in Munster. Further research clearly needed.
S, Irish people never run the lights as far as I know (I thought that was American, actually) we do, however, break them.