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Farm Sayings

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    #152
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    All hat and no boots.

    Someone wanting to show how brilliant they are with nothing to back it up.

    Comes from the old cowboy movies, I think?


    I think its "All hat and no cattle"?

    I once heard a woman from Clare describe someone else as being "as handy as a small pot" which I thought was quite funny. It might be a saying from that part of the world.


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    #153
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭boardise


    Faraway cows have long horns.


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    #154
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    'sure tomorrows another day'

    'why put off till tomorrow, what can be done today'


    Sayings would wreck your head at times.....


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    #155
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    an oportunist - "if he saw a pot he'd want to pi ss in it "

    tight fisted - "time to let the moths out of the wallet"


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    #156
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭The Rabbi


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    I think its "All hat and no cattle"?

    I once heard a woman from Clare describe someone else as being "as handy as a small pot" which I thought was quite funny. It might be a saying from that part of the world.

    "As handy as a black quart" A quart being a two pint pot.


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    #157
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,054 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »
    All hat and no boots.

    Someone wanting to show how brilliant they are with nothing to back it up.

    Comes from the old cowboy movies, I think?

    Another one similar to it is all that and no cows


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    #158
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    There's a lad over the fields from here and he's that religious, he'd shut the cock away from the hen's off a Sunday.


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    #159
    kerry cow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭kerry cow


    he's about as useful to you , as wet sock .

    describing a no good


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    #160
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Just off the phone with a prolific talker. Almost 40 mins of inane chit chat. Any of the following would describe such a person.

    They'd talk for Ireland.
    They'd talk the ass off the pot.
    They'd talk the hind legs off a donkey.
    They'd talk a rat to death.


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    #161
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Not sure how Irish this is as I've only heard it locally and we're mostly blow ins (did you see what I did there :D)

    One well known local is famous for his story telling and I've heard it said of him, He'd put legs on fish.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #162
    [Deleted User]
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    Commenting on someone that is bald or balding "More hair on a head of lettuce"


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    #163
    kerry cow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭kerry cow


    when some is explaining or asking you to do something you know nothing about ,

    you'd reply its like looking into a bucket of water ,


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    #164
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    I asked an old guy that owns a timber yard that I use how much he charged for fire wood - offcuts. His reply which I've never heard before was - A Pint of Water. No one else I know has ever heard the expression but it seems to mean something of no value because I get the offcuts for free?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #165
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Commenting on someone that is bald or balding "More hair on a head of lettuce"

    Or - "Moss won't grow on a good field".

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #166
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,056 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    My father used to get so hungry that he'd "ate the back axle of a donkey". Never heard it before or since


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    #167
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    On a tight operator...

    He'd buy and sell you and keep the change ...


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    #168
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    There's more in his head than a comb would take out.
    A cute hoor in other words.


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    #169
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    zetecescort wrote: »
    My father used to get so hungry that he'd "ate the back axle of a donkey". Never heard it before or since

    Or he'd eat a horse and chase the jockey


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    #170
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,876 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Or he'd eat a horse and chase the jockey

    Or "I could eat a horse between two bread vans" or hungrier still "I could eat a horse and still have place for the jockey".

    A saying amongst older neighbours locally about having freedom to make your own decisions is "Like Cooney and the jennet". The backstory to it being that a Cooney man lived on our road year's back and only had a jennet and cart as means of transportation. The road outside his abode led to town in either direction and both distance's were roughly the same. Seeing as the jennet was the one walking he'd be told to please himself as to which route to take and the saying was born.


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    #171
    wicklow_hunter
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭wicklow_hunter


    Short for someone was lazy:

    If there was work in the bed he would sleep underneath it

    Like father like son:
    Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree


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    #172
    pawdee
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭pawdee


    Shtamp out scour!


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    #173
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    wicklow_hunter wrote: »
    Short for someone was lazy:

    If there was work in the bed he would sleep underneath it

    Like father like son:
    Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

    It wasn't from the grass he licked it!!


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    #174
    ryanp3
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭ryanp3


    It's easier change your mind than change your socks.


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    #175
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    When a person isn't as easily fooled as another person might think:


    Not so green as cabbage-looking


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    #176
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    It wasn't from the grass he licked it!!
    Around here its - he didn't lick it off the road.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #177
    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    What's in the cat is in the kitten


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    #178
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,574 ✭✭✭White Clover


    kerryjack wrote: »
    What's in the cat is in the kitten

    Black cat, black kitten


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    #179
    LilacNails
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭LilacNails


    White Clover wrote: »
    Black cat, black kitten

    Don't get it?


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    #180
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    LilacNails wrote: »
    Don't get it?

    Traits of the parents are passed onto the next generation.


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    #181
    Pod123
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Pod123


    What’s in the Bitch comes out in the pup


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