PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Is maith an chreach a roinneas, it is good to have enough to go round.
Thug siad ceithre cuarta an tí, they went all round, searched every corner of, the house.
Níl ~ (na) ranna ann, there is not enough of it to go round.
Thug sé ~ na háite, he went, ran, all round the place.
Níl ~ a roinnte ann, there is not enough of it to go round.
Is ea a chuamar timpeall na tíre, what we did was to go round the country.
~ síos, amach, do leataobh, timpeall, go down, out, to one side, round.
Dul an ~, to go the long way round.
Dul thart ar rud, to go round sth.
Chuamar ~ soir, we went round towards the east.
Ná cuir an ~ ort féin, don’t go the long way round.
Chuir siad míle de thimpeall orthu féin, they added a mile to their journey by going round.
Tá an scéal ag dul ~, the story is going the round.
~ leat! ~ libh! Round you go.
Dul ~ an domhain, to go round the world.
An domhan a thimpeallú, to go round the world.
Ní imeoidh an ~ is an timpeall orainn, if we can’t go by the strand we can go round, we’ll manage one way or another.
Ghabh siad faoi thrí ~ ar Theamhair, ~ na Teamhrach, they went three times withershins round Tara.