Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Phrases

   

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   "He is very near" (very hungry, miserly)
   "They live very near" ("or very tight")
   "He did his best to do it but he was bet on it" (He failed)
   "Give a lock of hay to the cows"
   "I don't know how they got the bob on him" (ní fheadar conas a bhuaileadar bob air)
   "The bees back on edge along" (coming and going back and forth)
   "They were Jack undifferent about going") (ar nos cuma liom)
   "Such a man is to burying today"
   "He's an awful ould ibex"
   "He was scrawling" (rooting, tearing with fingers)
   "He's rearing a puck" (when a man starts to wear a moustache)
   "He had all kinds of cummas on it." (He made a lot of comments on it)
   ("Pumps" = boots)

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script