Tá sé ar muin na muice
Meaning: He's doing wonderfully; living in luck.
Language: Irish
Literally: He's on the pig's back
Category: Animals
Origin: An Irish image of riding high on good fortune, carried along on the pig's broad back.
Equivalents in other languages
- Norwegian: Å være midt i smørøyet — literally: To be in the middle of the butter-eye
More idioms — Animals
- I rri gjel dikujt — To strut arrogantly before someone and refuse to back down or bow one's head to them.
- Iku me bishtin ndër shalë — To slink off defeated and ashamed.
- Avoir une araignée au plafond — To be a little crazy.
- Einen Kater haben — To have a hangover.
- Buscarle tres pies al gato — To overcomplicate things; to look for trouble.
- Non sapere che pesci pigliare — To be at a complete loss what to do.
More Irish idioms
- Ní neart go cur le chéile — Strength comes from working together.
- Imíonn an tuirse is fanann an tairbhe — Hard work's reward outlasts the toil.
- Is glas iad na cnoic i bhfad uainn — The grass is always greener elsewhere.