PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Tá orlach aige orm, he is an inch taller than I am.
Fear de d’~, a man of your inches.
Tá orlach de ~ fós, there is an inch of it still sticking out.
Tá orlach, bliain, agat orm, you are an inch taller, a year older, than I am.
Tabhair ~ don bhodach agus tabharfaidh sé féin slat leis, give him an inch and he’ll take an ell.
Ní thabharfadh sí ~ ná sá uaithi, she wouldn’t budge an inch.
Bíodh an t-orlach, an t-unsa, mar bhuntomhas againn, let us take the inch, the ounce, as the measure.
~ fear, bean, bliain, orlach, fifty men, women, years, inches.
Tomhas, orlach, míle, ~, square measure, inch, mile.
~ orlaigh, míle, acra, quarter of an inch, of a mile, of an acre.
Ba mhaith do chomharthaí fir, you looked every inch a man.
Chuir mé orlach leis, I added an inch to it.
Is airde d’orlach é, he is taller by an inch.
Ach orlach dá dhíth, short of an inch.
Orlach, míle, ar ~, an inch, a mile, deep.
~ orlach de, within an inch of.
Áit a shiúl ina fóid chaola, to go over every inch of a place.
Ní ghéillfeadh sé orlach, he wouldn’t budge an inch.
Lig sí orlach leis, she let it out an inch.
Ná ~ orlach eile iad, don’t let them advance another inch.
Dá mbeadh orlach de ~, ~ orlaigh, aige, if it had an inch of play.
Ní mhaithfinn puinn (ás, bonn, orlach) dó, I would let nothing go with him; I wouldn’t yield an inch to him.
Gach ~ dá chorp, every inch of his body.
Rud a thomhas ina orlaí, to measure sth. in inches.
Chuardaigh siad ina orlaí é, they searched it inch by inch.
Shiúil mé ina orlaí beaga é, I went over every inch of it.
Ní fearr Éire ná ~, an inch is as good as a mile.
Gan ~ a ghéilleadh, not to yield an inch.
Léarscáil ar ~ orlaigh sa mhíle, map on scale of an inch to a mile.
Gach aon ~ de, every inch of him.
~ orlaigh, one-inch space.
Chuaigh mé faoi orlach dá mharc sa léim fhada, I went within an inch of his mark in the long jump.
~ slata, ~ horlaí, three yards, three inches.
Tá ~ orlaigh agat orm, you are about an inch taller than me.