| English | Russian |
| get someone's Irish up | разозлить кого-нибудь (also get someone's dander up; get someone's back up; get someone's hackles up; put someone's back up Old Senior) |
| Irish bull | анекдотическое противоречие (Bobrovska) |
| Irish bull | явная нелепость (To speak of 'a free hand in the terms of this correspondence' is an Irish bull. – Говорить о "полной свободе действий в пределах, указанных в переписке", – полнейшая нелепость. / Дж. Голсуорси "Собственник" Bobrovska) |
| Irish bull | очевидный абсурд (Bobrovska) |
| luck of the Irish | ирландское везение ("Eoin O'Faodhagain of Ireland made news last month when he was one of two people to report seeing Nessie over the span of just five days. (...) "To see Nessie once is unbelievable but twice in a month is fantastic," he marveled, "it's the luck of the Irish, I suppose." To that end, O'Faodhagain just might be the most prolific Nessie spotter in history." (coasttocoastam.com) ART Vancouver) |
| luck of the Irish | ирландская удачливость ("Eoin O'Faodhagain of Ireland made news last month when he was one of two people to report seeing Nessie over the span of just five days. (...) "To see Nessie once is unbelievable but twice in a month is fantastic," he marveled, "it's the luck of the Irish, I suppose." To that end, O'Faodhagain just might be the most prolific Nessie spotter in history." – coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
