| 释义 |
be after doing somethingIrish Be on the point of doing something or have just done it: the pigs were after breaking loose...- I really think that the country is going to suffer badly because our value system is after breaking down in many respects.
- When I spoke to a number of residents here, on Friday morning last, they were after taking their complaints to the County Council the previous day and had staged a sit in.
- They were after getting level, were running at us, and David just got the interception.
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