What Irish sayings (#irlsayings) did people tweet about on #irlday?

Yes We Can - Favourite Irish Sayings

On 23 May 2011, we asked people to tweet about their favourite Irish sayings or proverbs as part of #irlday. Here is a list of some of them.  You can support #IrlDay by sharing your favourite Irish sayings using the Twitter hashtag #irlsayings and #irlday.

• A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
• Athnaionn ciarog ciarog eile (birds of a feather flock together)
• Beagán a rá agus é a rá go maith (Say little but say it well)
• Cead Mile Failte
• Devil a Bit
• He/she’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic
• How’s she cutting
• Gerrup outta that!
• Get up the yard
• Go on ya good thing
• Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat! (May the cat eat you, and may the devil eat the cat!)
• Go n-éirí an bóthar leat
• Grand
• Is Feidir Linn! – (Yes We Can)
• It’s a soft day (It’s raining!)
• Keep er’ Lit
• Langer
• May your spuds be floury!
• Mol an oige agus tiocfaidh siad (Praise the young and they will come)
• Nil aon tintean mar thintean fein (There’s no place like home)
• Sure it’ll be grand
• Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam (a country without a language is a country without a soul)
• Two shakes of a lambs tail
• What’s for you won’t pass you by
• What’s the craic
• What’s the Story