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.(continues on next page)