PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ grá, máirseála, óil, love-, marching-, drinking-, song.
Tá sé ar ~ le hólachán, he is drinking himself silly.
Bhuail sé leis an ól, he set about drinking, took to drink.
Bhí siad á ól ina chaláin, they were drinking it by the gallon.
Craos is ~, immoderate eating and drinking.
2. ~ (óil), (drinking-)horn.
~ ar ólachán, prohibition against drinking.
~ dí, voracious drinking.
Stad sé den ól, he stopped drinking.
Duine a chur ar an ~, chun an drabhláis, to set s.o. off on a drinking career; to debauch s.o.
~ a dhéanamh díot féin, to make a beast of oneself (drinking).
Fleá agus ~, feasting and conviviality; feasting and drinking.
Tá ~ siúil, damhsa, óil, air, he is in a mood for walking, dancing, drinking.
Ná ~ ar an ól, don’t start drinking.
Ag ~t is ag ól, gambling and drinking.
Ól agus ~, drinking and merriment.
~ agus ól, eating and drinking.
Le h~ óil, for drinking purposes.
~ sé den ól, he kept on drinking.
~ean de ghol, den ól, to stop crying, drinking.
~ ag ól, temperate in drinking.
An t-~, drink, the habit of drinking.
Bheith ar an ~, to be drinking, on the booze.
Stad, ligean, den ~, to stop, abstain from, drinking.
~ a dhéanamh, to do a bout of drinking.
Tá sé ag ~, he is drinking, boozing.
Ag ~ go trom, drinking heavily.
Ag ~ na fearthainne, na gréine, drinking in the rain, the sunlight.
An t-~, (the habit of) drinking, drink.
Ag cur ~ san ól, drinking with gusto.
~ óil, fit of drunkenness; drinking-spree.
Bhí siad ag ~adh (isteach) a chuid cainte, they were drinking in his words.
~ óil, hiccup from drinking.
2. Dul ar an ~, to go on a spree, on a drinking bout.
Oíche ~, a night’s drinking.
Ag ~adh na gcárt, na gcuach, draining the quarts, the goblets; drinking copiously.
~ uisce, drinking-trough.
Bhíomar ag ól faoi do thuairim, we were drinking to your success.
Teach ~ óil, secluded drinking-house.