PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Más peaca a bheith ~ tá na mílte damanta, ‘if it’s a sin to be sallow thousands are damned’, beauty is only skin deep.
~ chéad, ~ mhíle, four hundred, four thousand.
~ chéad, ~ mhíle, five hundred, five thousand.
~ gcéad, ~ míle, ten hundred, ten thousand.
Céad, míle, céad míle, ~ (romhat), a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, welcomes (to you).
~ óir ort! Good for you! A thousand thanks!
~ míle punt, twenty thousand pounds.
Is go mb’fhearr liom míle uair é (ná), I’d prefer it a thousand times (to).
Míle duine a ~, they number a thousand persons.
1. ~ le míle eile acu, together with a thousand more of them.
Go raibh míle ~ acu as a gcabhair, a thousand thanks for their help.
~ duine, bliain, one thousand persons, years.
~ go leith punt, one and a half thousand pounds.
Na mílte troigh ar airde, thousands of feet high.
Duine as an ~, one person in a thousand.
Tá na mílte aige, he has thousands (of pounds), is well off.
Na mílte ~ acu, thousands upon thousands of them.
Tá míle punt ann ~ bhfuil níos mó, there are a thousand pounds there, if not more.
~ ar mhíle leabhar, more than a thousand books.