PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
An bealach ~ , the way home.
An bealach is lú ~, the easiest way.
Tabhair d’~ mar seo, face this way.
Cam díreach an ród is é an bealach mór an t-~, ‘the longest way round is the shortest way home’.
1. An bealach ~, the near way.
~ an duine, man’s mind, way of thinking.
Tá mé i m’~ anseo, I don’t know my way about here.
Tá aistí dá chuid féin aige, he has his own peculiar ways.
An t-~ agus an cóngar, the long way and the short way.
Chuir sé ~ air féin, (i) he took the roundabout way, (ii) he put himself out of his way (to do sth.).
Tá sé san ~ orm, it is in my way.
~ a chur ar an saol, ar an ól, to get to know (the ways of) the world, (the effects of) drink.
An bealach ~, the way out, the exit.
An bealach amach, the way out.
Chuaigh an bia le m’~, the food went down the wrong way, went against my breath.
Tá an duine bocht in ~, the poor fellow is in a bad way.
In ~, ar ~, in a bad way, plight.
Ná bíodh ~ ná anall ann, let there be no two ways about it.
Tá dóigh mhaith oraibh anseo, you are in a good way here.
As bealach, bóthar, cosán, slí, out of the way, in error.
Bhí siad as a n-eolas, they had lost their way.
Tháinig siad ar ais ar a n-~, they retraced their way back.
Ní dhéanfaidh tú ar a ~ de dhóigh é, you will not (be able to) do it in any other way.
Bhí sé ag ~t leis chun an aonaigh, he was driving cattle, on his way (with cattle), to the fair.
Tá ~ aithne agam air, I know him in a sort of a way.
Is iomaí ~ air, there are many ways of looking at it.
Tá dóigh bheag bhocht orthu, they are in a poor way.
~ na Bó Finne, the Milky Way.
Tá sé ar a bhealach abhaile, he is on the way, coming, home.
Do bhealach a dhéanamh, to find one’s way.
Eolas an bhealaigh a chur, to ask one’s way.
Is iomaí rud a chuir an fear sin i mo bhealach, that man has put many benefits in my way.
~ isteach, amach, way in, out.
Bheith, teacht, i m~ duine, sa bhealach ar dhuine, to be, get, in s.o.’s way.
Is mór sa bhealach thú, you are in everybody’s way.
Tóg as mo bhealach é, take it out of my way.
Fág an ~ aige, get out of his way, let him pass.
Tabhair cead an bhealaigh dó, let him have his way, do as he pleases.
Tar an ~ seo, come this way.
Bhí mé ag amharc an ~ eile, I was looking the other way.
Is fada an ~ é, it is a long way, distance.
Tá ~ fada romhat, you have a long way to go.
Chuaigh mé cuid den bhealach leis, I accompanied him part of the way.
I rith an bhealaigh, all the way.
~ oibre, way, manner, of working.
Déan ar do rogha ~ é, do it any way you like.
Níl ach aon bhealach amháin air, there is only one way to do it.
Tá ~ maith maireachtála acu, they have a good way of living.