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get someone's dander up and get someone's back up; get someone's hackles up; get someone's Irish up; put someone's back up Fig. to make someone get angry. (Fixed order.) Now, don't get your dander up. Calm down. I insulted him and really got his hackles up. Bob had his Irish up all day yesterday. I don't know what was wrong. Now, now, don't get your back up. I didn't mean any harm. luck of the Irish luck associated with the Irish people. (Also said as a catch phrase for any kind of luck.) Bill: How did you manage to do it, Jeff. Jeff: It's the luck of the Irish, I guess. See also: luck How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She is shrewd on Bowen's Irishness, her complicated childhood and adolescence, her long and happy but probably companionate marriage, her love affairs, her literary and social friendships, her accomplishments. In Rachel Bluntzer Hebert's literary "ballad" that draws upon the folk legends, this tragic transformation from Irishness to "whiteness" is an implicit, repressed theme. This lay interpretation of Irishness was reinforced with varying degrees of int ensity by clerical leaders, who viewed the metaphor of Irish nationality within a predominantly religious frame of reference and extolled the virtues of a holy and cruelly oppressed 'Isle of Erin'. |
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