A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced.
One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade.
Upon observation you would say...
Used as an exclamation at something happening. Eg. at a hurling match when a person scores a goal in a humurous way a person can joke.
"Did ya see that, Up she flew and the cock flattened her!"
