PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Aithním i mo chnámha é, I feel it in my bones.
~ sna cnámha, brittle-boned.
Níl cáin sa bhuille nach mbuailtear, hard words break no bones.
~ sliasta, ridge of thigh-bone.
An rud atá sa bhun bhán (tá sé sa bharr ghlas), what is bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
Níl ~ sa bhuille nach mbuailtear, hard words break no bones.
Tiocfaidh an chnámh ina chéile, the bone will knit.
Níl san iasc sin ach ~ , that fish is all bones.
~ cnámh, crunching of bones.
~ duine, ainmhí, éisc, human, animal, fish, bone.
~a na marbh, the bones of the dead.
~ corróige, cromáin, hip-bone.
~ grua, leicinn, cheek-bone.
~ (na) leise, thigh-bone, femur.
~ (na) lorga, shin-bone, tibia;
~ murnáin, an mhurnáin, ankle-bone.
smiolgadáin, collar-bone.
~ uisinne, na huisinne, temporal bone.
Na ~a a bhaint as rud, to bone sth.
Tá na ~a aige, he has plenty of bone.
Cuirfidh an bia maith ~ ann, good food will strengthen his bones.
Níl ann ach na ~a agus an craiceann, he is only skin and bone.
Tá na ~a ag teacht tríd an gcraiceann aige, his bones are protruding through his skin.
Bhain sé as a chnámha é, he worked himself to the bone for it.
Roinnfear do cheithre ~a ar a chéile, every bone in your body will be broken.
Tá an fuacht ag dul sna ~a aige, he feels the cold in his bones.
~ spairne, bone of contention.
~ an scadáin, herring-bone (pattern).
An rud atá sa chnámh (is doiligh a bhaint as an bhfeoil), what is bred in the bone (is difficult to get rid of).
Níor chuir sé ~ ann, he made no bones about it.
~ a chur ar do chnámha, to give one’s bones a rest.
Níor chuir sé ~ crua dá chnámha riamh, he never exerted his bones, never did a hard day’s work.
Ní raibh aon chnámh ina chorp nár briseadh, every bone in his body was broken.
3. ~ géill, angle of jaw; lower jaw-bone, jaw.
Go raibh a gcnámha coscartha san uaigh, until their bones had disintegrated in the grave.
~ chnámh, scamhóg, bone, pulmonary, tuberculosis.
An ~ críon, the old bag of bones.
Cnámh a chreimeadh, to pick a bone.
~ an chinn, na baithise, junction of parietal bones, fontanelle.
An ~ atá ina chnámha, the infirmity in his bones.
Alt, cnámh, an chromáin, hip-joint, -bone.
Cnámh a dheisiú, to reduce, set, a bone.
Tá ~ ionam le laige, my bones are creaking from debility.