donnybrook

Related to donnybrook: Donnybrook Fair

donnybrook

A wild fight or brawl. The name refers to the "Donnybrook Fair," an event held annually until 1855 in Donnybrook, Ireland, and known for the rowdy fights that sometimes occurred there. I knew there had been a donnybrook at the bar when my friends came home bruised and bloodied.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

donnybrook

n. a big argument; a brawl. There was a big donnybrook at the concert, and the police were called.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sleep fest
  • sleepfest
  • snoozefest
  • snorefest
  • on the tiles
  • take the Browns to the Super Bowl
  • rumble
  • boo off the stage
  • hoot (one) down
  • howl (one) down
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"Donnybrook is as subtle as a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the face.
And when scrum-half Clive Stuart-Smith grabbed a try early in the second-half to put them in control at 20-10, it looked as though the Scarlets would rob Leinster of their 17th home win at Donnybrook.
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The Northern Ireland born son of a farmer, who made Dublin his home, will be buried in his native Bellaghy in Co Londonderry this evening after a funeral in the Donnybrook church in the morning.
2pm DONNYBROOK LEINSTER A v PONTYPRIDD are boosted by news fly-half Simon Humberstone and prop Ryan Harford have undergone scans which have dispelled fears of a broken nose and thumb respectively.
Donnybrook Energy Inc (TSX VENTURE: DEI), a Canada-based oil and natural gas exploration and production company, has increased its non-brokered private placement.
Leinster got the bonus point win they craved to keep themselves in the Magners League title hunt - but they left it late against bottom side Borders at a packed out Donnybrook.
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JON STUART will make his Scotland A debut against Ireland at Donnybrook on Friday.
A free-swinging, altogether unpredictable tribute to the Cabaret Voltaire Dadaist and New York psychoanalyst, this radio-play version of Huelsenbeck's "psychological salvation system" explodes all over the place: in the six-and-a-half-minute Berlin Dada donnybrook "rohrenhose rokoko-neger-rhythmus," in the weird "hottentotten-kral new york," in the ghostly occasional samples from lectures and interviews by Huelsenbeck himself, adn especially with American Peter Blegvad's rendition of the old Dada hit "Ende der Welt," which is here performed in English, as a blues.
The retired cleric, who is originally from Mayo but now based in Florida, bought the winning quick pick in Donnybrook Fair in Malahide, Dublin.