ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Scéal a bhfuil ~ air, long-drawn-out, silly, story.
Osna fhada, long-drawn-out sigh.
Scéal ~, long-drawn-out story.
Osna fhadchumhach, long-drawn-out, lonesome, sigh.
Scéal an ghamhna bhuí, long-drawn-out story; tale of a tub, idle fiction.
Rud a ligean chun leadráin, to let sth. become long drawn out.
Ná déan ~ chapaill de, don’t make a long-drawn-out story of it.
~ an chaipín deirg, an ghamhna bhuí, mhadra na n-ocht gcos; ~ ó Shamhain go Bealtaine, long-drawn-out story, rambling tale.
2. Dul chun ~ le rud, to carry sth. too far; to make a long-drawn-out story of sth.