What ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ Means

The real Frank Sheeran’s mugshot. – Credit: C/O

Here’s Frank Sheeran in I Heard You Paint Houses, recounting his first conversation with Jimmy Hoffa (played by Al Pacino in The Irishman):

“The first words Jimmy ever spoke to me were ‘I heard you paint houses.’ The paint is the blood that supposedly gets on the wall or the floor when you shoot somebody.”

Which brings us to our next mob movie slang.

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