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I'll be bail en · X

Meanings

(Ireland) An expression indicating certainty; I'll bet; I'll guarantee.
- "If they wor all their lives goin' to chapel they cudn't have behaved thimsilves betther nor they did." "Ay, Paddy, mavourneen; I'll be bail they didn't skit and laugh the way some people would be doin'." "Laugh! not thimsilves, indeed." 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 515:

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