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...
When someone is being extremeley anti-social.Often this person does not go anywhere because they are spending an abnormal amount of time with their hundreds of cousins and goin to 50th birthday parties or just lying in there wee gypsy house in trentagh beacause theyre "wile tired man".The person may spend an large amount of time at "Norahs" also.
