Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Farm Sayings

123578

Comments

  • #202
    kerryjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭kerryjack


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


  • #203
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭White Clover


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


  • #204
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #205
    Trouser Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 348 ✭✭Trouser Snake


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


  • #206
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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


  • #207
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭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 :D


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


  • #208
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,237 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #209
    jc bamford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭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


  • #210
    jc bamford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭jc bamford


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


  • Advertisement
  • #211
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,237 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


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


  • #212
    zetecescort
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,188 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Work on Sunday, fix on Monday


  • #213
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,657 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    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...

    Same county

    “Saturday flit, short sit”

    Not my family but this was a big deal in wife’s family. Couldn’t move house, cattle, go on a trip etc on a Saturday


  • #214
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    ruwithme wrote: »
    There's no towbar on a hearse.

    or no pockets in a shroud.


  • #215
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    _Brian wrote: »
    Same county

    “Saturday flit, short sit”

    Not my family but this was a big deal in wife’s family. Couldn’t move house, cattle, go on a trip etc on a Saturday

    Bring home a new tractor,car or start to cut the silage off a saturday


  • #216
    Mossie1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Mossie1975


    Can't recall whether this saying was mentioned by myself or another poster. Went to a funeral last week with my father. A friend was sypathising with my Dad and remarked that "they are picking from our team now". Not necessarily farming related but was very apt as both had played GAA back in the day.


  • Advertisement
  • #217
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Don't know if it's been mentioned here before but it was just used in the green cert class & I'd forgotten how much I loved the saying.

    "Nearly never bulled a cow" :D


  • #218
    kerryjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Don't know if it's been mentioned here before but it was just used in the green cert class & I'd forgotten how much I loved the saying.

    "Nearly never bulled a cow" :D
    Unless the bulls name was nearly


  • #219
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,894 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Unless the bulls name was nearly

    Surely you mean Nearly never?


  • #220
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    50HX wrote: »
    A johndoe of turf/hay........a small load

    Father use to always say it when he'd see a neighbour passing with an 8x4 trailer of turf

    There's Timmy heading home with a johndoe of turf

    They used to say in Cork for a handy load of barley, a hawm pull off barley, I presume it was derived from a handful of barley.


  • #221
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Talking through the arse of his britches
    Talking rubbish.


  • Advertisement
  • #222
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    20silkcut wrote: »
    That lad hasn’t the brains of a choc ice

    That lad is so mean he’d steal the nail off a badgers toe

    He wouldn’t give you the steam off his piss.

    He wouldn’t give his sh1t to the crows.


  • #223
    White Clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    They used to say in Cork for a handy load of barley, a hawm pull off barley, I presume it was derived from a handful of barley.

    Next door neighbour always says that! He pronounces it hompull.


  • #224
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    White Clover wrote: »
    Next door neighbour always says that! He pronounces it hompull.

    That’s it, wasn’t sure how to spell it.


  • #225
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Had a good laugh at this one today. We were talking about someone who apparently had fathered 14 children. We were naming out all the family. The woman of the house in her 80s pipes up talking about the father in question-
    "He knew it wasnt for stirring his tea with anyway."


  • #226
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    'I seen more brains in a blow up doll' - referring to someone not that bright.
    bullzzz.gif



  • #227
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    It's like throwing biscuits to bears. (For someone who never has enough)


  • #228
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    "The child in the cot would know that"

    Speaking of someone lacking basic knowledge on a topic


  • #229
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,263 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    It's like throwing biscuits to bears. (For someone who never has enough)

    Like giving strawberries to a donkey.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #230
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    'I seen more brains in a blow up doll' - referring to someone not that bright.

    Lad in the next parish nickname is 'Bungalow'
    I asked the auld lad when I was younger how did they come up with that name.
    Well says he, the fella in question hasn't a lot going on upstairs!


  • #231
    Odeta
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭Odeta


    Years ago, I overheard this comment going in to Mass. Local lad was after getting engaged to an older lady. One fella asked what she was like and the other fella quipped "200 acres would put a face on her". The couple are still going strong while the two lads are still bachelors ...


  • Advertisement
  • #232
    Xtrail14
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 253 ✭✭Xtrail14


    She would mind mice at a cross roads.


  • #233
    LilacNails
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭LilacNails


    Odeta wrote: »
    Years ago, I overheard this comment going in to Mass. Local lad was after getting engaged to an older lady. One fella asked what she was like and the other fella quipped "200 acres would put a face on her". The couple are still going strong while the two lads are still bachelors ...

    As in a he's only with him for the land/money?


  • #234
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

    Hope for unlikely outcomes if you wish - but dont forget to take care of the ordinary stuff


  • #235
    Xtrail14
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 253 ✭✭Xtrail14


    ‘Twas like pushing a marshmallow through a keyhole


  • #236
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mind the pennies,and the pounds will look after themselves


  • #237
    shortlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭shortlegs


    Referring to a contrary individual:

    He (She) would run rats out of a haystack.


    Referring to a cute hoor:

    He’d build a nest in your ear - and raid it again.


  • #238
    kerryjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    It's a day for the high stool. meaning it's a ****ty day outside and we should all head to the pub, a distance memory now and can't see them opening any time soon


  • #239
    chooseusername
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    gozunda wrote: »
    Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

    Hope for unlikely outcomes if you wish - but dont forget to take care of the ordinary stuff
    No point praying for the jackpot if you're not in the draw.


  • #240
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Mind the pennies,and the pounds will look after themselves

    Mind the pennies, the pennies will look after the pounds and the pounds will look after themselves.


  • Advertisement
  • #241
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    kerryjack wrote: »
    It's a day for the high stool. meaning it's a ****ty day outside and we should all head to the pub, a distance memory now and can't see them opening any time soon

    A high stool farmer, I made that up myself but it could go for any profession. They can solve any problem once they are perched on a high stool with a pint in their hand.


  • #242
    chooseusername
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Lad in the next parish nickname is 'Bungalow'
    I asked the auld lad when I was younger how did they come up with that name.
    Well says he, the fella in question hasn't a lot going on upstairs!

    Bungalow Bill;
    nothing upstairs but big downstairs,
    according to Joan Collins.


  • #243
    kerryjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Bungalow Bill;
    nothing upstairs but big downstairs,
    according to Joan Collins.
    Good one I always thought a bungalow was an irish thing, by god we love our bungalows.


  • #244
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Good one I always thought a bungalow was an irish thing, by god we love our bungalows.

    I think I read somewhere the word bungalow is from India, came to us from England I would assume... same with pyjamas (i think) ;)


  • #245
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 580 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    A clap on the back is only 6 inches from a kick in the hole,


  • #246
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,777 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    kerryjack wrote: »
    Good one I always thought a bungalow was an irish thing, by god we love our bungalows.

    I hate bungalows with a passion even though I’m living in one, I can’t figure out what all the bungalow bliss during the 70’s and 80’d was about because it would’ve been a lot cheaper to build a two storey house, half the floor space and half the roof space.


  • Advertisement
  • #247
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    Whats in the ram will be in the lamb.


  • #248
    westyIrl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭westyIrl


    You can lead the horse to water but you can't make it think.

    What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

    Train your pup and you'll have your dog.

    Half a loaf is better than no bread.

    Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.

    My all time favorite curse "that the collar may light him"


  • #249
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,263 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    You got the first one mixed up think its....

    You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

    You're probably getting mixed up with the definition of Horticulture attributed to Dorothy Parker

    You can take a Horticulture but you can't make her think.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #250
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    " He'd drink it out of a wellie "

    Fond of the stout.


  • #251
    westyIrl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭westyIrl


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    You got the first one mixed up think its....

    You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

    You're probably getting mixed up with the definition of Horticulture attributed to Dorothy Parker

    You can take Horticulture but you can't make her think.

    Nope...It's a play on that saying when you have someone who despite all help still fooks it up by way of brain fart, but the original is good too ;)


  • Advertisement
Advertisement