In J. M. Synge's play, The Playboy of the Western World Christy Mahon earns his reputation on his grand claim that he had slain Old Mahon, his tyrannical father. He outlines the circumstances of his deed to the wonderstruck villagers, to quote ;
CHRISTY: I did not then. I just riz the loy and let fall the edge of it
on the ridge of his skull, and he went down at my feet like an empty sack,
and never let a grunt or groan from of him at all