Nuair a bhíonn an cat amuigh bíonn na lucha ag rince
When the cat is out the mice dance · Noor ah vee-un on kot ah-mwee bee-un nah lukh-ah egg rink-eh
Nuair a bhíonn an cat amuigh bíonn na lucha ag rince means When the cat is out the mice dance, and is said Noor ah vee-un on kot ah-mwee bee-un nah lukh-ah egg rink-eh.
Word for word
Taken literally it reads When is the cat out are the mice dancing. Irish often puts a sentence together differently from English, so the literal reading rarely matches the meaning.
How to say it
Say it Noor ah vee-un on kot ah-mwee bee-un nah lukh-ah egg rink-eh, written the way an English speaker would read it.
When you’d say it
Known to every teacher who has left a classroom for two minutes.
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