There's no place like home
NÃl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. Probably the most famous of all Irish proverbs, literally meaning 'there's no hearth like your own hearth', i.e. There's no place like home.
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mairead
2011-01-28
ya it means theres no place like home.. but if you want to actual LITERAL meaning its there's no fire place like your own fireplace..
Ciaran
2009-07-12
My father, who was a fluent Irish, liked to say "NÃl aon tóin tinn mar do thóin tinn féin." There's no sore bum like your own sore bum!
Kieron Wood,
Dublin/Baile atha Cliath
2009-04-03
AithnÃonn cÃaróg cÃaróg eile. One beetle recognises another beetle - it takes one to know one.
Irish: in song "Take her up to Monto ..." the phrase "Pog ma hohn" occurs. I was told it meant "Kiss my a**e" but didn't know which word was which until "Pog" (Kiss) turned up as the title of dual text poem by Meg Bateman. (Scottish Gaelic)
"The queen she came to call on us,
She wanted to see all of us.
I hope that she don't fall on us,
She's eighteen stone!"
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