Irish translation

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Acid Badger
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Irish translation

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I saw a Guiness billboard in Dublin (I made a photo but I acutally fail at uploading it - I'll try later). It says:

Ní féidir an dubh a cur ina bhán air

And I would really like to know what it means. :D

/e: Now it works:
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Fanu wrote:I saw a Guiness billboard in Dublin (I made a photo but I acutally fail at uploading it - I'll try later). It says:

Ní féidir an dubh a cur ina bhán air

And I would really like to know what it means.
First off, there's a slight misspelling: cur is lacking a ponc séimhithe.

Word for word, this is "Ain't possible the black to put in-his white on-him." But it's a proverbial expression meaning "You can't convince him that black is white" or "You can't put one over on him."

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