PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Brostaíonn airc intleacht, necessity is the mother of invention.
Níl ~ ar an éigean, ar an riachtanas, necessity knows no law.
Ní h~ a thug ann é, he did not go there of necessity.
Gan ghá gan riachtanas, without any necessity.
Múineann ~ seift, necessity is the mother of invention.
Bhuaigh an ~ ar an gcoinníoll aige, dire necessity compelled him to do it.
~ riachtanais, agent of necessity.
Ní chuimhníonn cú ~ ar a coileán, ‘a hungry hound does not remember its whelp,’ necessity knows no law.
1. ~ le rud, necessity for sth.