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haveasixpenny bitupone'sbackside (third-person singular simple presenthas a sixpenny bit up one's backside,present participlehaving a sixpenny bit up one's backside,simple past and past participlehad a sixpenny bit up one's backside)

1. (slang, dated, Ireland) To beover the moon, to be veryhappy.
   • 1980, Ted Lewis,GBH, Sphere Books,→ISBN, page174:

     ‘Eddie told me what you done […] Come in here earlier on likehe’d got a sixpenny-bit up his backside.’

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