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Farm Sayings

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  • 18-09-2020 9:41pm
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    Mossie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭


    Have ye any farm related sayings like this one I heard a lot growing up?:

    The hay saved and Cork bet ... not a bad start to the Summer

    Unfortunately, beating Cork was easier said than done.


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    degetme
    Registered Users Posts: 767 ✭✭✭degetme


    Tipp bate, the hay saved and the munster final won


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    #3
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,082 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    One swallow never a summer made


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    #4
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Hindsight is the foresight of a gob****e


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    #5
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    He's a plougher like ourselves. Neighbour of mine used to say this.


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    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    No point being mad unless you can prove it. Applies to all farming activities.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    A fine looking woman, I rather have her down than a field of hay and she’d be saved a lot quicker.

    Another one was I’d rather be feeling her than feeling the cold.


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


    As dry as Beamish's bull.


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    Finty Lemon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    Sheep money only buys more sheep


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    #10
    curiousinvestor
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭curiousinvestor


    The day you buy is the day you sell.
    ( I've learned that lesson once and wont be caught again)


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    kerryjack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭kerryjack


    As tight as a ducks arse, No fool like an old fool, he would break a crowbar in a bog, you would want 2 dicks on you to keep that one happy.


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    Mossie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭Mossie1975


    I don’t follow this saying as it works brilliantly for me & my neighbours but I know many that would agree with it:
    Neither a borrower nor a lender be


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    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,262 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Tighter than a bulls hole walking up a hill.


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,475 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    He’s like an asses tool, a big fella when he’s out.


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    the hedgeman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭the hedgeman


    "you can make a small fortune in farming....provided you start with a large one"


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    50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭50HX


    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


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    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Ya can't teach pork.
    Rough as a bag of cats. Description can apply to man, woman or machine.


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    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    From a Cornish farmer (father in law) referring to someone that was making a mess of a job....

    Like a cow handling a musket

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,475 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    For a clumsy worker.

    “every finger is just a bigger thumb”


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


    For a horse that was worked and not cared for after

    "looks like he/ she's been ridden hard and put away wet"


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    Sugarbowl
    Registered Users Posts: 820 ✭✭✭Sugarbowl


    Mossie1975 wrote: »
    I don’t follow this saying as it works brilliantly for me & my neighbours but I know many that would agree with it:
    Neither a borrower nor a lender be


    I agree with you - it’s what builds a friendship with a neighbor being able to do something back and forth.


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


    Good fences make good neighbours.

    he's a horse of a man ,if , he can **** walking .

    if ,if ,if
    if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle ,

    birds of a feather flock together ,


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    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 13,012 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    'You can't bate breeding.'

    ie good genes and not necessarily referring to the stock!

    To thine own self be true



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


    I bought a pig in a bag ,

    buying without seeing


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


    bird in the hand is better than 2 in the bush .

    realise a good deal


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    I Am The Law
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    Where you have livestock you'll have dead stock.


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    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭kk.man


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    From a Cornish farmer (father in law) referring to someone that was making a mess of a job....

    Like a cow handling a musket

    Making a pigs tail of it...

    Telling lies... If you said that to a ass he'd kick you.


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    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    kerry cow wrote: »
    Good fences make good neighbours.

    That's so true.


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    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    If a son is like the father...

    "Scuttery cow scuttery calf"

    Or...

    "Bad ram bad lamb"


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    #30
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Never trust someone that talks out of the side of their mouth.


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    PoorFarmer
    Registered Users Posts: 525 ✭✭✭PoorFarmer


    mfceiling wrote: »
    If a son is like the father...

    "Scuttery cow scuttery calf"

    Or...

    "Bad ram bad lamb"


    We'd say "Black cat, black kitten" or
    "Kicky mare, kicky foal"


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