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Ould sayings that are useful to know

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    #92
    ian87
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    He'd be a horse of a man if he could **** standing up.

    (about a person who lives beyond their means) she's to poor to paint but to proud to whitewash


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    #93
    OldGoat
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    ian87 wrote: »
    He'd be a horse of a man if he could **** standing up.
    He's a horse of a man but he couldn't shíte trotting.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #94
    EZ24GET
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    red sky at night sailor's delight
    red sky in morning sailor take warning.


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    #95
    Gypsy Roman
    Registered Users Posts: 73 ✭✭Gypsy Roman


    If you love something let it go,if it returns to you it is yours forever,if it does not it never was.

    If your not living life on the edge you are taking up to much space.

    The probem with some people is when they are not drunk they are Sober.

    Cynical people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.


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    #96
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    EZ24GET wrote: »
    red sky at night sailor's delight
    red sky in morning sailor take warning.

    Often heard the same with Farmer/Shepherd instead but as live on the coast, normally Sailor.


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    #97
    Mickey H
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    It's an ill wind that doesn't blow some good.

    It's a long road that doesn't have any turns.


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    #98
    Curly Judge
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    EZ24GET wrote: »
    red sky at night sailor's delight
    red sky in morning sailor take warning.

    Red sky at night means that a shepards house is on fire.:D


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    #99
    Alice1
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    The apple never falls far from the tree.

    A wild goose never reared a tame gosling


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    #100
    Curly Judge
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    Alice1 wrote: »
    The apple never falls far from the tree.

    A wild goose never reared a tame gosling

    Like father like son
    It wasn't off the ground he licked it.
    Kicky cow, kicky calf.
    Kutch cat, kutch kitten.
    The way you rear them is the way you'll have them.


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    #101
    enfield
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    The amount of people looking at you..........is directly proportionate........ to the stupidity of your actions.


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    #102
    looksee
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    Curly Judge wrote: »
    Like father like son
    It wasn't off the ground he licked it.
    Kicky cow, kicky calf.
    Kutch cat, kutch kitten.
    The way you rear them is the way you'll have them.

    Kutch?


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    #103
    Satts
    Registered Users Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Satts


    Gambling is a tax on the foolish.


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    #104
    tayto lover
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    On keeping bad company -
    "if you lie with the dogs, you'll rise with the fleas".

    On minding your own business
    " a shut mouth catches no flies".


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    #105
    Satts
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    Early to bed and early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise.


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    #106
    Curly Judge
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    looksee wrote: »
    Kutch?

    You've set me thinking.
    Round here we use it as a sort of reactive exhalation when you discover the neighbours cat with her arse sticking out of the butter dish.
    A sort of feline "fu*k off".
    Maybe it should be spelt "cutch" or "cat shoo" but I can't find it even in my slang dictionaries.


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    #107
    Alice1
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    Curly Judge wrote: »
    You've set me thinking.
    Round here we use it as a sort of reactive exhalation when you discover the neighbours cat with her arse sticking out of the butter dish.
    A sort of feline "fu*k off".
    Maybe it should be spelt "cutch" or "cat shoo" but I can't find it even in my slang dictionaries.
    Sticking outta the butter dish? Really? Now, that is just gross - an' I'm never eatin' butter in your house.


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    #108
    not yet
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    It wont be always dark at 6.

    One swallow never made a summer.

    A bird never flew on one wing.

    Myaaa. An old dublin word meaning my arse.

    He looked like god was going to take him.

    He looks like he has the spanish dancer (cancer)

    Hope he wakes up dead some day.

    And my favourite: ah jaysus isn't he a lovely corpse.


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    #109
    Curly Judge
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    Alice1 wrote: »
    Sticking outta the butter dish? Really? Now, that is just gross - an' I'm never eatin' butter in your house.

    You'll have to wait to be invited first.:p:)


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    #110
    Curly Judge
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    Sun before seven means rain before eleven.
    According to one Met person I am acquainted with, this would be more accurate if it was the other way around.
    Rain before seven means sun before eleven.
    Apparently Irish weather systems are such that a rain belt seldom lasts more than four or five hours.
    Head down and waiting to be attacked from all sides.


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    #111
    Mensch Maschine
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    andrew241983 wrote: »
    i always felt these 2 contradicted each other.... maybe i'm wrong

    They can't contradict each other as you wouldn't say to a guy who just lost his daughter "out of sight, out of mind."

    You would say it though, if you had a little mess that needed cleaning but would sweeped it under the rug.

    It's all about context.


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    #112
    looksee
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    A couple that my granny used to say

    A whistling woman and a crowing hen is good for neither God nor men

    You're stitching poverty on your back - if she saw anyone stitching a button or a hem while wearing the garment

    and totally off topic - a little puzzle that used to get put in autograph albums

    YYUR
    YYUB
    ICUR
    YY4me


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    #113
    Jellybaby1
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    looksee wrote: »
    and totally off topic - a little puzzle that used to get put in autograph albums

    YYUR
    YYUB
    ICUR
    YY4me

    I haven't seen that one in years!

    Two wise you are
    Two wise you be
    I see you are
    Two wise for me

    And that was in the days before textspeak!! :D


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    #114
    mathepac
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    Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work

    A friend in need is a pest

    Beidh la eile ag an gcaorach.

    The recipe for a successful marriage in Kildare is a Clane woman and a Prosperous man.


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    #115
    Jellybaby1
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    mathepac wrote: »
    The recipe for a successful marriage in Kildare is a Clane woman and a Prosperous man.

    Now that's just hilarious! :D


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    #116
    shanered
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    The early bird catches the worm

    Expect the worse, and then anything else will be a plesent suprise.


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    #117
    policarp
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    If the swallows are flying low,
    there will be rain.

    When the seagulls fly inland
    there's rough weather at sea.


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    #118
    Curly Judge
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    mathepac wrote: »

    The recipe for a successful marriage in Kildare is a Clane woman and a Prosperous man.

    Then there was the one about the randy Kildare auctioneer.
    He was looking for a little thatched cottage near Athy.


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    #119
    Esel
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    Curly Judge wrote: »
    Then there was the one about the randy Kildare auctioneer.
    He was looking for a little thatched cottage above Athy.
    FYP :)

    Not your ornery onager



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    #120
    EZ24GET
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    my Dad had a little saying I never figured out. I know that when he used it it was a statement of his disbelief and came just short of saying you were a liar, but it never made any sense to me and i never heard anyone but him use it. If you were telling a story for instance how the bike tire was flat because a big dog nearly as big as you jumped out and took a bite out of it and caused you to wreck and you'd just barely been able to beat the dog off you with your shoe... he would interrupt you by saying "AH, You sh*t in your hat!" Anyone else ever hear that or have any explanation of where it might have come from ?


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    #121
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    EZ24GET wrote: »
    my Dad had a little saying I never figured out. I know that when he used it it was a statement of his disbelief and came just short of saying you were a liar, but it never made any sense to me and i never heard anyone but him use it. If you were telling a story for instance how the bike tire was flat because a big dog nearly as big as you jumped out and took a bite out of it and caused you to wreck and you'd just barely been able to beat the dog off you with your shoe... he would interrupt you by saying "AH, You sh*t in your hat!" Anyone else ever hear that or have any explanation of where it might have come from ?

    Could it have stood for: "You must have sh!t for brains if you think I'm going to swallow that one"?

    [Not that I'm suggesting it was true or anything like that!];)


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