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ní breac é go raibh sé ar an bport
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Irish
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Irish
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Etymology
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Literally, 'it's not fish until it's in the port'.
Proverb
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ní
breac
é
go
raibh
sé
ar
an
bport
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Synonym:
ná maraigh an fia go bhfeicfidh tú é
References
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de Bhaldraithe, Tomás
(
1959
) “
chicken
”, in
English-Irish Dictionary
, An Gúm
Ó Dónaill, Niall
(
1977
) “
breac
”, in
Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
, Dublin: An Gúm,
→ISBN
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Irish lemmas
Irish proverbs
Irish multiword terms