PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Déanfaidh sé ~ na tíre, he will ruin the country.
Tá tú ar bhealach d’~a, you are on the road to ruin.
Ná tabhair ~ duit féin amuigh san fhearthainn, don’t soak yourself, ruin your health, out in the rain.
Tá sé ~ (ar) an doras acu, they have put him outside the door; they have ruined him.
Ag dul chun ~ agus chun ainreachta, going to rack and ruin.
Ná ~ do shláinte, don’t ruin your health.
Ní bhrisfidh sé thú, it will not ruin you.
Rinneadh mo chabhóg, I was brought to ruin.
4. Rud a chur ó chion, to destroy the value of, to ruin, sth.
~ duine a dhéanamh, to despoil, ruin, s.o.
An rud a rinne a chreach, what ruined him.
Tháinig ~ lábáin air, he was utterly ruined.
Is geall le ~ é, it spells ruin.
Duine a chur ó chrích, to ruin the prospects of s.o.
Chuir sé an saol ó chrích air féin, he ruined his prospects in life.
Cailín a chur ó chrích, to ruin, seduce, a girl.
Ná ~ thú féin leis, don’t ruin your eyes with it.
Chuir sé ~ air féin, he ruined himself.
Ní ~ d’aon duine greim a mbéil a thabhairt dóibh, it will ruin nobody to give them a bite to eat.
Duine a chur chun an donais, to drive s.o. to ruin.
Chuir sé ~ air féin, he left himself in a bad way, ruined himself.
D’imigh ~ air, he was brought to ruin, went to the bad.
Cuirfidh sé ~ air féin, he will ruin himself in the end.
Chuir sé ~ air féin, he ruined himself.
Dul in ~, to become unshapely, ugly; to go to rack and ruin.
Ná bí ~ ar d’aimhleas, don’t rush headlong into ruin.
~ tí, caisleáin, ruined house, castle.
Tá siad ina ngátairí dóite agat, you have ruined them.
Duine a chur do ghorta, i n~, to starve s.o.; to ruin s.o.
Bhí siad ag imeacht ó rath, they were doing no good, were going to ruin.
Ná cuir thú féin in easláinte leis, don’t ruin your health because of it.
Mhill siad an tír, they ruined, devastated, the country.
Mhill sé an t-éadach, he ruined the cloth.
Ná ~ do shláinte, don’t ruin your health.
~fidh tú do shúile leis, you will ruin your eyes with it.
Mhill tú an scéal orainn, you ruined matters for us.
Chuir sé ~ ar an áit, he brought the place to ruin.
Scrios an t-~ é, drink ruined him.
Ag dul chun piostalais, going to the bad, to ruin.
Tá an phraiseach ar fud na mias, everything is in a mess, ruined.
Rinne sé ~ de féin, he wrecked himself, ruined his health.
Tá sé ina ~ ag an ól, he has ruined himself with drink.
Dul, imeacht, chun ~e, to go to rack and ruin.
Rud a ligean chun ~e, to let sth. go to ruin.
~ sé é féin le ragairne, he ruined his health with dissipation.
Chuir siad ó ~ na bliana mé, they ruined the year for me.
Tá siad scriosta lena ~, they are ruined for life.
~ siad a chlú, they spread ill report of him, ruined his reputation.
Rinneadh ~ ar na barra, the crops were ruined.