EXACT MATCHES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
dóbair. 1. (Treated as defective verb) It nearly happened (that). ~ dom titim; ~ go dtitfinn, gur thit mé, I nearly fell. ~ go mbáfaí é, he narrowly escaped drowning. An bhean a ~ dó a phósadh, an bhean a ~ a phósfadh sé, the woman he nearly married. ~ siad mé a mharú, they nearly killed me. ~ dó! It was a near thing for him! 2. (Used substantively) Ba dhóbair go ndoirtfinn é, nár dhoirt mé é, I nearly spilled it. Chuaigh sé go dtí an ~, it was touch and go. Ní dheachaigh ~ riamh in abar, a miss is as good as a mile.