A chairde ...

I came across the above phrase in Foclóir Póca the other day. Does anyone here use it, or hear it used by others? Does it, by any chance, have a second meaning, as it does in English? That is to say, apart from its literal meaning, 'It's a bit late in the day for that' can mean 'you've waited too long'.

Would 'late in the afternoon' be anonn san iarnóin? If I wanted to say 'I'd like a late-morning appointment', would I have to say Ba mhaith liom coinne ar anonn sa maidin or is there another way? What about 'an early-morning appointment' and 'late-night television'? How are those said?

Is mise le meas ... Linda

Tá "Anonn sa lá/oíche" cloiste agam.

Ach ní dóigh liom go mbainfí feidhm as do maidin ná iarnóin. Agus ní dóigh liom go bhfuil aon chiall eile leis.

I'd use tráthnóna for late afternoon/early evening.
I'd probabaly say something like "lár an lae" for late morning. (But being me I'd be more likely to say after time X or between Times X and y!)

Dia duit, a Aonghuis, remember me? ...

Thank you for your answer. I'm proud to say I understood almost all of the Irish! Only word I'm not sure of is go mbainfí, and I can't find it in any of my sources. My guess is that it's another way of writing go mbainfidh. Is that right?

Still wondering how to say 'early in the day' ? I thought it would be luath sa lá, but that doesn't really correspond to the opposite of anonn. Unfortunately, I don't know the opposite of anonn and one of the things dictionaries are very bad at is providing opposites. And one can't really blame them. Not their bain!

Bainfí is the autonomous form of the conditional tense ("would be used") rather than another way of writing bainfidh. Fáilte ar ais, a Linda.

go moch ar maidin "early in the morning"
go moch sa lá "early in the day"

Sin é.

I looked up in the dictionary to check and accroding to it Early morning is Adhmhaidin. I wasn't sure, becuase RnaG has a news program called just that - but it runs from 8 - 9 am.

More words: Ardtráthnóna Mid afternoon

There is more in an Béal Beo, if I have time I'll post them.