Ever wondered how to say in Irish:
ÒSheÕs making a mint!Ó
ÒI donÕt know him from Adam!Ó
If so, then Gaelic Idioms is for you. This book is chocker block with useful Irish phrases and idioms
IÕm over the moon! LŽimfinn tigh!
He pulled a fast one on me. Bhuail sŽ bob orm.
Get a grip! Beir ar do chiall!
Before you could say Jack Robinson (Dia le mÕanam), youÕll be chatting away like a native speaker!
There are some 250 pages of alphabetically listed English phrases and expressions which faithfully reach to their nearest Gaelic equivalents.
This book ÔGaelic IdiomsÕ is part of a series which also includes ÔEssential IrishÕ - a phrase-book and simplified grammar, ÔNathanna CainteÕ - a Gaelic-English version of the same dictionary, and ÔProverbs in GaelicÕ Ð a collection of some of the most frequent, popular and interesting traditional expressions.