The Irishman Slang Explained: Your Guide to the Vig, Candy, Going to School, and Painting Houses

Went to school/went to college

Both are synonymous with “went to prison.” I Heard You Paint Houses can be a little confusing because sometimes Sheeran is talking about going to school, and sometimes he’s talking about going to school. He mentions that one character “went to school in 1967,” and a paragraph later says another character “came out of college and went straight to work for the union.” Does he mean college, or college? It isn’t clear.

Here’s an old, uh, school photo of the real Jimmy Hoffa, from long before the events of The Irishman:

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