PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Níl aon leigheas ~ is fearr ná é, there is no better remedy known.
Leigheas (na) caillí, old woman’s remedy.
Is fada ón gcneá an ~, ‘the poultice is far from the wound’, the remedy does not touch the root of the disease.
~tar mórán chun a leighis, it takes a lot to remedy it.
Locht, éagóir, a ~, to remedy a fault, an injustice.
An t-~ is fearr ar rud, the best prescription, remedy, for sth.
Tá sé thar ~; chuaigh sé thar a thaomadh, it has gone beyond all remedy.
1. Leigheas a thriail, to try a remedy.