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I'll be bail
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en Ireland An expression indicating certainty; I'll bet; I'll guarantee.
en I'll be bound
en 1850 w:Thomas Keightley The Fairy Mythology London H.G. Bohn 515 "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."