PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Níl i do chuid cainte ach cur i gcéill, what you say is mere pretence.
Níl ansin ach ~ an ceann agus seachain an muineál, it is a mere quibble; it is six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Ní bhfuair tú ach ~, you got a mere token, next to nothing.
Níl ann ach an chreatlach, he is a mere skeleton.
~ an bheagáin, mere pittance.
Mún ~ san fharraige; cúnamh an ~ don fharraige, a mere drop in the ocean.
~ ach smaoineamh air, merely by thinking about it; at the mere thought of it.
~ bheag, a mere scraping.