Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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   CAPPA = Cappawhite parish

   1. "If you come to the hurling with me, I'll give you the best time you ever had in your life in the 'Stradda Mhór'"
   Formerly the Main St of Thurles. Isn't this an extraordinary case of metathesis? "Str" for "tSr, (Thurles)
   2. "That's another day of the week ", ie a different matter , or aspect of the question, altogether (Doon and Cappa).
   3. 'That's what makes the land dear'. Said to a person; or of a person, wh is fond of interfering. from Land War (Doon and Cappa).
   4. "We never died of a winter yet". Cheer up. While there is life there is hope. (Doon).
   5. "I never killt a man or burnt a house" - nobody can accuse me of anything out of the way (Doon).
   6. "It's not the cow with the big dug that gives all the milk". Appearances are deceptive - don't take book by the cover (Doon).
   7. "The big feather for the big tick" - rich associates with rich .
   8. "As dead as a cock" = as a door nail (Doon and Cappa).
   9. A Dhómhnaill Uí Chonaill, dtuigeann tú Gaedhilge? Time for us to be clearing out of here (Doon).
   10. "We're you ever drunk at a fair? " Said to spur one to his best endeavour (Doon) from faction fights.
   11. "What gobán made that?" = handyman, spoil-stick (Doon)
   12. "As deaf as a bīttle" (Doon and Cappa).
   13. As cowld as a plough (Doon)
   14. "Put the clock up" (Doon)= the clock is slow. Advance the hands. "Train time will be up an hour tomorrow"

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