Scoil: St. Cronan's, Bray

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “The following collection of Irish phrases.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   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.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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