PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Scoláire ~ as, a middling scholar.
Tá mé go measartha, I am middling.
Aimsir, sláinte, bhreac, middling weather, health.
~ prátaí, oldish, middling, variety of potatoes.
Tá siad ~ gan a bheith maíteach, they are fair to middling.
Mór agus beag agus ~, big and small and middling.
Cuíosach gan a bheith ~, just middling.
Bheith go ~, to be fairly well, middling.
Níl sé ach go ~, he is only middling.
Is furasta (é) a mholadh, there is little to be said in his favour; he is only middling; it is not up to much.
Lag ~, weak but convalescing; fair to middling.