Is teóir i n-éim!

Is teóir i n-éim!

(is * help * in * timeliness)

That’s timely help! That was in the nick of time!

A commonplace expression, and Cú Chulainn’s exclamation just after Fiacha mac Fir Aba has rescued him from the joint onslaught of twenty-nine warriors, in the LL Táin.


Topics: The Characters Speak Proverbial Sayings