School: Áthán (B.), Lios na Groighe (roll number 14173)
- Location:
- Ahane, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Héalaithe
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0523, Page 412
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- (continued from previous page)(17) 'Tis as long as a late breakfast
(18) Sugar wouldn't melt in his mouth (said about a person all plámás)
(19) You'd hear a pin drop there (degree of quietness)
(20) That's very salty (said when you get a stroke)
(21.) He came within a name's ace of it (=a narrow escape)
(22) Within a bee's knee
" the black of your nail
" a hair's breadth (hare's breath)
" the toss of a 1/2d.
(23) An inch of an escape is as good as a mile
(24) He's as ignorant as a pig
(25) He was born with a "caul" (a net over the face)
26. He drank his nuff of tea(continues on next page)
