Here's a suggestion I'd like to make. I have a folder of quotations and sayings that you might find interesting to translate into Irish or perhaps come up with an equivalent expression.
Here's one to start off with:

'A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
'Is í bean chomh mála tae........

To "get into hot water" means to "get into trouble" or to "get into a difficult situation". I'm pretty sure that that idiom does not exist in Irish, so it wouldn't really make any sense in that language, right?

Is dócha, but you might like to try looking for an equivalent expression in Irish or failing that, making one up that's similar in tone.

I see that - to be in hot water - can be translated by - bheith i tine bhruite, and scalding hot is - dearg te.

If I were to find an equivalent expression in the Irish language, it wouldn't match the play on words with "tea bag" in English. I'm not trying to be nit-picky, I just don't see how this one can work.

How about - standing the heat? - but it doesn't have to be a tea bag, it could be anything that can stand up for itself when the going gets tough.

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Here's an earlier version of this saying, though the meaning isn't quite the same. It might be easier to translate -

Men are like potatoes - they do not know how soon they may be in hot water.
(The Shamrock Newspaper, Dublin 1870)

There is the expression bheith i dtine bhruite that has a similar meaning.

A Fharanc 91,
ní raibh mé ach ag 'diócáil' -d'atóg mé seanfhocal éigin a fuair mé ar líne, lol

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I think I would agree with WFM here. The idioms are completely different, and as such it would be a waste of time, trying to translate this.
A more fertile idea might be to try and find humourous sayings like this that already exist in the Irish.
Bog an Béarla, mar a dúirt an té a dúirt é.