School: St. Cronan's, Bray

Location:
Bray, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Patrick Mac Donnell
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    The following collection of Irish phrases.

    1/ Water bewitched and tea begrudged - weak tea.
    2/ Such a morning never had a mother - a wild and cold winter's morning.
    3/ Buttermilk that would take a pearl off a piper's eye - sour buttermilk.
    4/ Let the late-comers kiss the hare's foot.
    5/ She'd coort a haggard of sparrows. (Haggard is a hay and straw yard.)
    6/ I have it in my hand, where the piper had his jig.
    7/ There's a frog in the kettle.
    (Said of a kettle that takes a long time to boil.)
    8/ Like a chip of porridge - neither good nor harm.
    9/ What won't choke will fatten; and clean dirt is no poison.
    10/ Nothing like a change of linen, as the old woman said when she turned her shift.
    11/ My belly thinks my throat is cut, as the hungry man said.
    12/ Kick him again, he's no relation.
    13/ Just as well sing sorrow as sigh it.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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