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Farm Sayings

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


    One from the uncle. I think it might be his own though ;)

    "Three new tractors won't plow a field"

    Meaning that all the new equipment in the world won't get work done without some getup and go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    gozunda wrote: »
    One from the uncle. I think it might be his own though ;)

    "Three new tractors won't plow a field"

    Meaning that all the new equipment in the world won't get work done without some getup and go.

    I've actually seen that in action years ago. The guy in question was a useless fcker. Myself, my brother and his brother had to go up and help him plant his field of broccoli for him. Even his brother said he was a useless cnt.

    Pressure is for tyres.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    'Ah sure he got it handy'
    Usually someone jealous of someone else's good fortune.


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


    ruwithme wrote: »
    " He'd drink it out of a wellie "

    Fond of the stout.

    A sore heel is another one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭BnB


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


    You're wrong there. The word bungalow did originate in Ireland in the late 60's.

    Two lads in Meath were building a two story house when they ran out of blocks only half way up. One lad sez to the other....Sure we'll bung a low roof on it and leave it at that...



    I'll get my coat.....


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




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd



    I live in a Bangladeshi bungalow so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Plough your own furrow.


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


    This one comes from a book "Plots and Pans"

    "Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction"

    I especially agree with the last bit :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭joe35


    "Divil and all bad luck go with it"

    Grandfather would say this if stock died

    "At least it's in the field" grandmother would say


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭joe35


    "you could set spuds in them"

    If your ears were dirty


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


    Do they build bungalows in bangalore?


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


    Just a few more to keep the ball rolling.....

    He would steal the cross off an ass'es back.

    He would eat the ass out of the Crib.

    He would't shovel s**t from a cuckoo clock.

    And on a different vein..

    If you cut a thistle before St John, you'll have two instead of wan (one)


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


    He'd stale the winkers off a nightmare.


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


    Not quite a saying. But one of my favourites especially the collective expression

    "Feckin eejits" meaning 'a gathering of fools'. ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭joe35


    He wasn't reared on the hind tit.

    You wouldn't shove him from the trough


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭Grueller


    One locally here if a young fella is cute and the auld fella was too
    "I never saw a fox licking a lamb"


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


    Weeding beet for a neighbour back in the 70’s when it was dusk he’d say the man above is turning off the light. If he saw an auld lad walking slow he’d say he is in low gear. His own eyesight is bad now and he says the lamps are bad.


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


    Have you ever seen a rusty man, If a lad was afraid to work in the rain


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


    An old family one I'd forgotten its from the UK and I was reminded of it on BBC Radio 4 today (Gardeners Question Time).

    "All behind like a cows tail"

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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


    Jjameson wrote: »
    “Anytime we have lads we”ll have it this evenin”
    A very large industrious farmer with no less than 10 Nuffield tractors would say this to his men to try shorten dinner and Tay time.

    Me father and Uncle would same the same thing at tea time when working when I was a gasun. "Whatever time we have, we'll have it in the evening". Two horses of men to work.
    "Is there wind promised............cos if ya don't fire up a bucket of muck me mortar board will fly away". That or they would leave half a block on the board, stand up for a chat until I twigged that it was me that was the topic of conversation.


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


    Mechanic friend says when working in a tight spot "you'd want the hands of a midwife" or when the spanners or bolts fall on the ground "just aswell we're not at sea"


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


    On judging the attributes of good hunt horse

    "The arse of a cook and the head of a duchess"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,211 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    ''he didn't lick it was FF the ground'' referring to a young lad that was similar to the father, whether it was lazy, cute, bright or as thick as two planks.

    There was an ould lad that if you were filling a trailer with turf used to say ''the sooner it's filled the sooner it's back''. It wasn't much of an incentive when you when you taught about it. Real funny one one day a lad explained on the QT to him that it was better to say
    '' the sooner it's filled the sooner we have a rest''. However he wise'd up the other lad as to what he told him.

    As proud as punch he banged out the new punch line.
    '' the sooner it's filled the sooner we have a rest''.

    However one of the lads countered as fast
    '' but the sooner it's back Tom''

    Everybody burst out laughing except the auld fella

    Slava Ukrainii



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


    Fill the back of the shovel. The front will look after itself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    gozunda wrote: »
    All fur coat and no nickers - from the OHs granny

    Someone who tries to put on a facade despite things being otherwise

    My granny used AlWAYS use this - and she was so proper - you’d never expect her to come out with something like this or use the word knickers! I think of her saying it every time I hear it! RIP


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


    My granny used AlWAYS use this - and she was so proper - you’d never expect her to come out with something like this or use the word knickers! I think of her saying it every time I hear it! RIP

    Funnily enough its the first expression that comes to mind when I'm driving around country lanes and spot a brand new impressive set of gates and fancy bit of walling for a new house.

    There is one I pass regularly that from the road looks really grand but from inside on the drive and looking up from the house all you see are badly pointed concrete blocks.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Funnily enough its the first expression that comes to mind when I'm driving around country lanes and spot a brand new impressive set of gates and fancy bit of walling for a new house.

    There is one I pass regularly that from the road looks really grand but from inside on the drive and looking up from the house all you see are badly pointed concrete blocks.

    !! I don’t think my granny ever meant it about men - or property notions - she would Always use this the context of women - all dressed up like royalty but with no knickers on underneath - loose values & ready for action :0
    When she got older we used bring her in magazines to read - vanity fair & cosmopolitan & she would look at the models wearing half nothing draped over wealthy men and say dryly ‘ all fur coat and no knickers that one’.
    Got me every time!!!

    Another - it was far from (pasta) you were raised. Or (ski-holidays), etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭triona1


    Ugly as sin but beautiful money.


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


    Fill the back of the shovel. The front will look after itself.

    I worked with a guy once who would avoid work like the plague. He had every trick in the book to get tru the day doing as little as possible. I watched him once stand beside a computer from about 11am till 5pm when the boss told him he'd be back in a minute and forgot about him. If anyone asked him what he was doing he said he was waiting for the boss.

    The funny thing was my uncle knew his dad and he was the same way. He worked for the council on the roads. Every so often, they'd get new shovels but yer man would never take one. One day one of the younger lads asked him why. He said 'look at me with my half worn shovel, I'm shovelling as often as you, but I'm only doing half the work.'
    Your story reminded me of him. He didn't lick it off the road, as they say.


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


    "He wouldn't work to warm himself", for the fellow standing by the computer all day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,884 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    NcdJd wrote: »

    Pressure is for tyres.

    And women's bra straps.


    He wouldn't work if he'd a battery in him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    If lying on the bed was work he would lie on the floor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Jjameson wrote: »
    Hmm aren’t we very pc!
    “Pressure is for a traveler woman’s bra straps “is how I always hear it.

    Christ you reminded me I was in a pub one night and a particular woman with a group of women was the one buying all the drinks for the rest. A roll of notes kept in between her air bags.


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


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Christ you reminded me I was in a pub one night and a particular woman with a group of women was the one buying all the drinks for the rest. A roll of notes kept in between her air bags.

    A high interest rate to be found there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭razor8


    Engine is knocking like a skeleton having a **** in a biscuit tin


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


    razor8 wrote: »
    Engine is knocking like a skeleton having a **** in a biscuit tin

    Or the opposite, engine ticking over like a mouse's heart.


  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Toetohand


    I’m as weak as a June gosling

    I’m so hungry I’d ate the hind leg of the lamb of the God


  • Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Anniepower


    I’d ate Jesus off the cross I’m so hungry.

    If you look for trouble you will get plenty of it.

    A euro today is worth more then a euro tomorrow.


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


    Plough a bog and you'll get rushes ...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3 Jamesbeirne


    He tied a pup to the door.
    He owes money to someone


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭BnB


    That hoor wouldn't hurl spuds to geese

    Translated: I suggest that chap is not the most talented hurler on the field


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭minerleague


    "Dacent people aren't exact"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    If he didn't say it once he said it a half dozen times..


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    He/she is the two ends of an eegit.


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


    Better to be born lucky than to be born rich. I wasn't born rich but I was certainly born lucky in the woman I met and my kids are all healthy and happy. E


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    There are only 2 bolloxes in this village and you are both of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭popa smurf


    Not really farm saying but some I use in a daily basis
    Be a warrior not a worrier. I always have the battle face on have to working in construction
    And another one by the great Roy Keane fail to prepare, prepare to fail that's one that should be written up in every kids bedroom wall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭monseiur


    An old neighbour of mine had a saying about a person lacking in intelligence / simple minded or may have slight mental issues ' That fella is not the full schilling'
    Another version I heard is 'That fella is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.


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


    Better to light a candle, than curse the dark.


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