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It is a phrase that is used by Irish speakers, nowadays often applied to someone who is "under the influence". It is included in de Bhaldraithe's 1959 English-Irish Dictionary and in Ó Dónaill's 1977 Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla. Definitely not a "made for Duolingo" phrase.
AlisonLill3
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It's really cool when idioms translate across languages -- for instance, being "out of your mind" to mean crazy/irrational in both English and Irish! It would be awesome if Duolingo included more tips/explanations for the Irish course to let learners know when something is a common idiom in Irish, and when it's just a weird bot-generated sentence that sounds as bizarre in one language as it does in another.