Farm Sayings

When something of a freakish nature or against the odds or lucky happens.
If ya tried doing it ya couldn't do it.

Someone accident prone.
He'd be dangerous in a 10 acre field.

Accidents happen- even in the bed.

You can't beat a bit of room even if it's only in the bed.

Someone devious.
The only time they're straight is when they're lying in the bed.

Someone who doesn't spend much but has plenty of it.
He needs a step ladder to get into the bed.
Still has his communion money.

Keeping up with trends
Don't be the first or the last to do things.

john9876 wrote: »

Bit of a bed obsession going on there Foxy?

I copped that alright.

kerry cow wrote: »

if he threw up a penny , it would fall down a pound .

Or, the opposite
If he had ducks they’d drown..

If it was raining soup would be a fork I'd have

Although I think thats attributed to Brendan Behan it sounds to me like the sort of thing a farmer might say :P

Overheard one day when the electrician and his apprentice were on the farm.

'There's a quare difference between a futer and a fitter'

There's ne'er a bit of ballya (bailiú) on him - from my grandad - for someone who was scattered or a messy worker, or passing someone's yard that was not kept well.

"When your friends become your foes, then the world your secrets shall know" - from my great grandmother.
Don't talk about private business out of home, and don't trust people I suppose (!) not specific to farming though.

I've heard years ago of the hare's corner, leaving a corner of a field for the hare to live in. "Cúinne an ghiorria" Not a saying as such I suppose, but haven't heard that in years

"Idle dogs worry sheep", my grandmother again, when local pet dogs were realising the fun of hassling sheep while owners were at work, oblivious.

"You won't know the shelter of the bush till it's gone" - about cutting down shelter belts, but not knowing what you have 'till it's gone is the jist of it

"Two people never lit a fire without disagreeing"... the idea of too many cooks spoiling the broth

Repairing or building dry stone walls - "Never lay your hands on a stone twice" - meaning you should be sizing up each stone as you go, and plan where you're placing it.

"Beef to the heel like a Mullingar heifer, mutton to the bone like a Roscommon ewe" - my gran's favourite as a Roscommon woman

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Two people never lit a fire without disagreeing".

That is so true. I think it means literally as it says. Try lighting a fire some time with someone else nearby.

OMG how true, I can never light a fire without my wife telling me I'm doing it wrong. I've been doing it wrong for over 40 years!

The devil finds work for idle hands.

A fool and there money is easily parted

foxy farmer wrote: »

After a gatherer comes a scatterer.

Someone who squanders a farm or money after the generations before working hard to accumulate it.

That sounds more Biblical than Agricultural.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

A generation to make it, a generation to enjoy it and a generation to loose it. :rolleyes:

Easy come, easy go!

you can't make chicken soup out of chicken shít

All fur coat and no nickers - from the OHs granny

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

you can take the man from the bog , but not the bog from the man .