PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ reatha, (short) sprint, run (as at a jump).
Siúil, rith, sleamhnaigh, ar, walk, run, slide, on.
Bhí ~ ar mo chroí i ndiaidh an reatha, my heart was beating fast after I had been running.
Bhain sé chun reatha, he started to run.
Bhí sé ina rith i m~ a anama, he was running for dear life.
Fuair sé ~ reatha, he was made to run the gauntlet, was severely treated.
Ag rith i m~ a chéile, running towards each other.
Ag déanamh, ag baint, ~í timpeall na bó, running, circling, round the cow.
Thug sé ~ ar an mbaile, he took a quick run home.
In ísle ~, run down, enfeebled.
Tá siad ag ~eadh na gcos ina dhiaidh, they are forever running after him; they are crazy about him.
Tá sé ag ~eamh na mbróg, na spor, ina diaidh, he is forever running after her.
Bhí sé (anonn is anall) ar a chamruathar, he was gadding about, running here and there.
Ag imeacht ~ díreach roimh an ngaoth, sailing straight before the wind, running free.
Dul ar do chaomhnú, to seek refuge, to go ‘on the run’.
Ag imeacht ar ~ chárthainn, running helter-skelter.
Ag imeacht ~, running loose.
Is ~ (iad) na linnte lána, still waters run deep.
Rith cladaigh a thabhairt do bhád, to run a boat ashore.
Tá sé in am agatsa a bheith ag déanamh cnaipí, (i) you had better run for it, hurry to your destination, (ii) you had better prepare yourself for trouble.
~ reatha, running contest.
Córacha catha, ‘runs’, flourishes, in story-telling.
(Ag baint, ag rith) ar ~, (reaping, running) in unison.
Bhí siad ag ~eadh a chéile sa rás, they were running neck and neck.
Riail, slat tomhais, a chur ar rud, to run a rule, a measuring-rod, over sth.
Chuir siad chun reatha, they started to run.
Cur sa siúl, sa rith, to start walking, running.
Do chúrsa a thabhairt, to run one’s course.
Tá a chúrsa rite, his course is run.
~ giorriacha, hare-coursing. leithéid de chúrsáil, such a chase; such running about.
Ag ~ thart, running about.
~ buailte, clis, reatha, teacht abhaile, striking, first, running, home, base.
Gread leat go ~, run on as fast as you can.
Ag ~, doing odd jobs (about the house); running errands.
Rith ar an ~, to run on the straight, to follow a straight course.
Tá mo lón ag dul i n~, my provisions are running out.
~ datha, running of colour.
~ a choinneáil le duine, to keep up a running fire against s.o.; to keep pestering s.o.
Tús dúblála, beginning of second run in distillation.
Áit a fhágáil faoi dhuine, to allow s.o. the run of a place.
Fáscadh chun reatha, to set off on a run.
Rith, titim, le ~, to run, fall, down an incline, downwards.
Tá rothaí ~, it runs on wheels.
Dul chun fásaigh, to run to waste.
Duine a chur i bhfiacha, to run s.o. into debt.
~adh as an áit mé, I was run out of the place.