• Is fiú ór í (She’s worth her weight in gold)
• Las sí san aghaidh (Her face lit up – she blushed)
• Ar ais ar do bhonnaí (Back to your old self – literally, back on your toes)
• Tá mo theanga amuigh (I’m thirsty – literally, My tongue is out)
• Gan duine, gan daoine (All alone)
• Briseann an duchas trí shúile an chait (A chip off the old block)
• An rud a bhíos sa chú bíonn sé sa choileán (Similar to above really – literally, What’s in the hound is in the pup – Like father, like son)
• Ar mhuin na muice (On the pig’s back – doing very well!)
• Is iomaí lá ag uaigh orainn (We’ll be many days in the grave – i.e., Life’s too short)
• D’imigh sin agus tháinig seo (Those days are gone)
• As baile isteach (A blow-in; an outsider)
• Bhí a raibh aici ar ais (Everything she had was on show – a scantily-clad girl!)
• Tá an leabharlann faoi scread asail den teach (The library is within a donkey’s roar of the house, ie very close)
• Anoir aduaidh (a surprise, but literally means North East)

And finally, if you want to tell someone to mind their own business, try this tongue-twister:

Ná bac le mac an bhacaigh agus ní bhacfaidh mac an bhacaigh leat.

Try learning a few of them!!

Feicfidh mé sibh go luath – see you soon!

Terri