"Thanks a million"

Leithreas?




  "[To be] after" in Irish English

  Past-tense in the imposed language


The Hiberno-English past tense of the verb "to be" is a vestige of Gaelic Irish.

"He's after writing a letter" is equivalent to "he wrote a letter."

"I'm only after getting here" means "I just got here."

"He was after walking the dog" means "he had walked the dog."