Farm Sayings

patsy_mccabe

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White Clover wrote: »

Black cat, black kitten

Around here - breeding, it comes out in the eyes of a cat.

Liebling

I’m enjoying this thread.
Heard this saying quite a bit growing up on a farm:
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander

White Clover

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

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Around here - breeding, it comes out in the eyes of a cat.

Around here too, only it's, "breeding breaks out in the eyes of a cat"

Lime Tree Farm

Briseann an dúchas trí shúile an chait.

kerryjack

An ounce of breading is better than a ton of feeding

kerry cow

if it walks like a duck , quacks like a duck , its a duck .

meaning its the real deal .

White Clover

"It wouldn't dry shirt buttons "
Describing a poor drying day

SouthWesterly

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Briseann an dúchas trí shúile an chait.

That doesn't make sense

nutjobb

"pay the farmer now or pay the doctor later"

Cheap crap food is not cheap in the long run as your health will suffer. Eat proper food.

Esel

SouthWesterly wrote: »

That doesn't make sense

It's an old saying alright.

Think "Nature will come out" or "Nature - red in tooth and claw".

davidk1394

A local contractor I used work with had some gas sayings.

If you were hungry and looking for food a saying he'd often use is "an empty sack won't stand"

A friend of mine who started with him a good while ago was looking for extra money, his response was "we didn't all start in sixth class"

One day, one of the machines was giving big trouble and the dealers mechanic came out. Contractor came over to him saying " it isn't a two and six pence machine" i.e the machine isn't cheap

Lime Tree Farm

If you were hungry and looking for food a saying he'd often use is "an empty sack won't stand"

Heard someone respond to that one with "and a full sack can't bend"

White Clover

davidk1394 wrote: »

A local contractor I used work with had some gas sayings.

If you were hungry and looking for food a saying he'd often use is "an empty sack won't stand"

A friend of mine who started with him a good while ago was looking for extra money, his response was "we didn't all start in sixth class"

One day, one of the machines was giving big trouble and the dealers mechanic came out. Contractor came over to him saying " it isn't a two and six pence machine" i.e the machine isn't cheap

"An empty sack won't stand"
"And a full one won't bend" i.e. you'd be too full to be able to work.

eeeee

For something quick-
"short and sweet like an ass's gallop".

Tom_I_am

kerry cow wrote: »

I bought a pig in a bag ,

buying without seeing

That’s really interesting- I’ve lived in Sweden for many years and they have a saying here “att köpa grisen i säcken” - literally to buy the pig in the bag, so buying without knowing exactly what your getting, buyer beware! Used widely, not just in farming circles... could there be a Viking connection with Ireland ?!

alps

SouthWesterly wrote: »

That doesn't make sense

Think it might be

Instinct or tradition would break out through the eyes of a cat..

Say my name

Tom_I_am wrote: »

That’s really interesting- I’ve lived in Sweden for many years and they have a saying here “att köpa grisen i säcken” - literally to buy the pig in the bag, so buying without knowing exactly what your getting, buyer beware! Used widely, not just in farming circles... could there be a Viking connection with Ireland ?!

A pig in a poke ...rolls off the tongue easier. :pac:

gozunda

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

If pricks were scarce he'd make two!

Hadn't heard that one previously. I'd reckon its right ...

einn32

I worked with a guy form the North once and if we were fencing he would say 'make it protestant looking'.

A pat on the back isn't that far from a kick in the arse.

Guy near home told my father once he had to return a cow he bought as she had 'disease in the doug' .

ruwithme

There's no towbar on a hearse.

kerryjack

A day out of Kerry is a day wasted, john B Keane ,I had to through that one in.

White Clover

The best thing to come out of Kerry is the road to Cork!

Buford T. Justice XIX

White Clover wrote: »

The best thing to come out of Kerry is the road to Cork!

The only good thing to come out of Cork is the road to Kerry:P

Trouser Snake

The best thing to come out of Clare is the ferry to Kerry!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

The only good thing to come out of Cork is the road to Kerry:P

Only 2 things come.out of wexford

Knackers and strawberries.......x deosnt look like a strawberry

Lady Haywire

A while ago a rumour went around that a fella up the road had Covid.

"He's that mean he wouldn't give it to anyone" says Daddy Haywire


(I presume before Covid this was used for colds/flu/shingles etc)

Nekarsulm

Borrowed horses have hard hooves...
The other mans horse gets worked harder that you'd treat your own one . ( also applies to tractors etc.)

A Friday flitting is a short sitting
There was some superstition about moving house or farm on a Friday.

"Not within an Ass's roar" something a long, long way from being right, or or from adding up correctly.

"A smell of him that'd smother young whins" a very bad smell indeed...

jc bamford

Muna bhfuil agat ach pucán geobhar bí i lár an aonaigh leis

If you only have a puck goat (to sell) be in the middle of the fair with him

jc bamford

It is better a man get up late in the day than not get up at all

Nekarsulm

"If you get the name of an early riser, you can stay in bed all day".