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Cén Ghaeilge Atá ar “To Take a Shellacking”? Posted by róislín on Nov 4, 2010
It’s fascinating to me when 1930s slang shows up in today’s political headlines, as happened recently with President Obama’s now famous use of the phrase “to take a shellacking.” Even more fascinating to me, as you may have guessed, is to ponder how this might be expressed in Irish. It’s a two-part investigation. First, we’ll…