School: Áth Dara (C.)

Location:
Adare, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire Boardman
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  1. Old Irish Sayings.
    1. It would fit Fionn Mac Cumail. (Said when a garment is much too large.
    2. You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear. (Means if a person is very ignorant and clownish it is impossible to make them cultured).
    3. Making a mountain out of a molehill. (Means exaggeration).
    4. All his geese are swans. (Means exaggeration).
    5. Counting his chickens before they are hatched. (Means making sure of a thing before it happens.
    6. Building castles in the air. (Means filling yourself up with false ideas and they all come to nothing).
    7. It all went off in a bottle of smoke. (Means it fizzled out and was nothing in the end, said in reference to an argument or a fight).
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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