Ar mhuin na muice
Doing very well · Er win nah mwik-eh
Ar mhuin na muice means Doing very well, and is said Er win nah mwik-eh.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads On the pig's back. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Er win nah mwik-eh, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
On the pig's back, said in English in Ireland just as often as in Irish. When the pig was the family's wealth, riding it was as good as things got.
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