Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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   15. "Does she think it's Dean Swift she has?", as the girl said of the mistress who was always telling her hurry, hurry (Co. Tipp N).
   16. He is not injuring her at all; it's serving her he is", as Peter Horgan the poet said when he saw the boar and sow. (Cappa).
   17. Ned the M sat for an exam to join the old R.I.C. He failed. "Why happened, Ned to say you failed the exam?" "I think I put too many Zs in scissors". He was a tailor! [Doon
   18. "They do be in it" (Doon and Cappa) = The fairies one.
   19. "They are coming for me", said when anything happens.
   20. "I haven't enough to 'sop' a goat (Cappa) (i) - No land.
   21. "I haven't the grass of a maggot" (Doon) - no land.
   22. Bushy eyebrows sign of long life (Cappa) M. Quirke.
   23. "Any day of the week" = at any time at all (Doon and Cappa).
   24. "That's a horse of another colour" - a different matter.
   25. If you get a hurl when you are young , it may OFFEND you before you die"" (Cappa) = come against you.
   26. "Black fist" exchanging for something you don't see. Pig in poke but only done with article concealed in 'fisht' (Doon).
   27. "He is all edge" - full of enthusiasm (Murroe, Co Limk. ).
   28. "He hasn't what wd. clean a pair of candle-sticks" - ie. Very poor (Murroe). Candlesticks lent for wake must be cleaned before being returned to owner.

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   Language

   Béarla

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   Roman script