your man meaning: definition, quotations

your man

pron

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see your, man.

Ireland That man, the man in question.

... from the work of John Gilroy, whose animal cartoons and painful puns are still used to this day, to modern masterpieces such as the surfing ad (which led the Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore to ponder "how yer man stayed up on that surfboard after fourteen pints of stout").2002, Geoff Wallis, Mark Connolly, Margaret Greenwood, The Rough Guide to Dublin, page 122:
No, your man there with the kind of hooded eyes, talking to Tom O'Reilly. That's Frank Purcell, the general secretary.2004, May O'Brien, Clouds on My Windows: A Dublin Memoir, page 151:

2 more examples

Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement.2005, John Doyle, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, page 81:
"What did yer man want?" "Dunno, couldn't understand him."2008, Andrew Higgins Wyndham, Re-imagining Ireland, page 29:

noun

Informal The expert one does or should turn to.