Farm Sayings

Darwin · 25-09-2020 9:25pm

"Like a cow looking into a helicopter"

When someone hasn't a bulls what they are doing / The look of bemusement on someone's face.

the_pen_turner · 25-09-2020 9:36pm

a dog in a manger.
dog wont eat the hay but will stop the rest from eating it
someone who cant do the task but is stopping someone else doing it

NcdJd · 25-09-2020 9:38pm

As mean as ditch water (mean is pronounced main around here)

The dopey fox - someone who acts like an eejit but is a cute hoor behind it all.

That lad is not firing on all cyclinders - the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

kerry cow · 25-09-2020 10:07pm

brick short of a load .

not sharpish tool in the box.

like father like son .

The Continental Op · 25-09-2020 10:09pm

No ones mentioned that national favorite?

Now she's sucking diesel

degetme · 25-09-2020 10:12pm

She wouldn't travel well on soft ground

She has a big set of front weights on her

Reggie. · 25-09-2020 10:59pm

Keep the machinery between the greenery

Murang · 26-09-2020 12:13am

kerry cow wrote: »

he'd sell sand to an arab

Or sell snow to an Eskimo
Another one for someone you trust if he swallowed a nail he would **** a corkscrew

zetecescort · 26-09-2020 8:09am

My father after one of the silage crew or milk lorry knocked a gate or fence post

"He couldn't drive nails"

kerry cow · 26-09-2020 9:07am

bring horse to water but can'nt make him drink it

The Continental Op · 26-09-2020 9:33am

kerry cow wrote: »

bring horse to water but can'nt make him drink it

Made famous by Dorothy Parker who was said to have used it as a definition of Horticulture ''You can take a Horticulture but you can't make her think''

kerryjack · 26-09-2020 9:34am

There was an old saying about planting potatoes ones you could fire a shot through an ash tree that it wasn't in full leaf you could still plant potatoes, goes something like that I think.

Lime Tree Farm · 26-09-2020 9:35am

zetecescort wrote: »

My father after one of the silage crew or milk lorry knocked a gate or fence post

"He couldn't drive nails"

or "couldn't drive Neddy with the velvet ears".

kerry cow · 26-09-2020 11:29am

when livestock have a near miss ,it would be said .

"if they were any good they be dead "

Denny61 · 26-09-2020 11:37am

When you walk in to someone else place and they were doing something....you'd say..god bless the work ..they reply with ....god save you !!!

degetme · 26-09-2020 12:23pm

Where you will have livestock, there will be dead stock

patsy_mccabe · 26-09-2020 12:26pm

degetme wrote: »

Where you will have livestock, there will be dead stock

... and where you have good stock, you will have bad stock.

patsy_mccabe · 26-09-2020 12:28pm

1920 - people sitting down for a meal
"Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts, which we are about to receive.."

2020 - people about to eat
"God those farmers are destroying the planet. That's why I'm a vegan....blah blah ...

Cushtie · 26-09-2020 12:35pm

In the good old days when I was doing a bit of driving of a silage contractor, back in the day when you could be in a place for a Couple of days (or a week depending on the weather and breakdowns!! ) and you would be fed by the farmers wife.

The boss would always say after wolfing down his food "Come on fellas, tis lunch time not lunch hour"

whisky_galore · 26-09-2020 12:42pm

Darwin wrote: »

"Like a cow looking into a helicopter"

When someone hasn't a bulls what they are doing / The look of bemusement on someone's face.

"Like a donkey looking into a field of thistles."

Said of a larger lady;
"She'd pike round bales for you."

foxy farmer · 26-09-2020 1:00pm

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 · 26-09-2020 1:16pm

foxy farmer wrote: »

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.

Bit of a bed obsession going on there Foxy?

foxy farmer · 26-09-2020 1:21pm

john9876 wrote: »

Bit of a bed obsession going on there Foxy?

I copped that alright.

jimini0 · 26-09-2020 1:26pm

Somebody who is fond of a lie or 2.
I wouldn't believe the radio in his van

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-09-2020 1:39pm

Someone who wouldn't be the brightest.

If his brains were dynamite, he wouldn't blow the wax out of his ears.

kerry cow · 26-09-2020 3:24pm

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

BENDYBINN · 26-09-2020 5:23pm

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..

kk.man · 26-09-2020 10:33pm

jimini0 wrote: »

Somebody who is fond of a lie or 2.
I wouldn't believe the radio in his van

He couldn't lie straight in a bed.

The Continental Op · 26-09-2020 10:42pm

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

kerryjack · 26-09-2020 10:54pm

If he fell out of a plane he would land on his feet

Mehaffey1 · 27-09-2020 12:46am

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

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

Grueller · 27-09-2020 7:55am

If I fell into a barrel of tits I'd come out sucking my thumb.

lucalux · 27-09-2020 9:40am

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 · 27-09-2020 10:14am

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.

The Continental Op · 27-09-2020 10:19am

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!

lucalux · 27-09-2020 11:58am

The Continental Op wrote: »

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!

Absolutely true! Went camping a few weeks back and that was the only sore point between me and my fellow camper.
I've seen it happen so often at festivals too, Jaysus it can cause ructions

whisky_galore · 27-09-2020 12:00pm

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Bullocks · 27-09-2020 4:39pm

"More meat on a ducks forehead". The old lad said that to me today when we were looking at one of the cows that's gone thin

kerryjack · 29-09-2020 5:25pm

A fool and there money is easily parted

foxy farmer · 29-09-2020 6:26pm

After a gatherer comes a scatterer.

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

The Continental Op · 29-09-2020 6:37pm

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 · 29-09-2020 7:46pm

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.

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

BENDYBINN · 29-09-2020 8:19pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

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

Easy come, easy go!

vincenzolorenzo · 30-09-2020 4:43pm

Say my name wrote: »

April showers bring May flowers.
A wet and windy May fills the barns with corn and hay.

The ash before the oak, we're in for a soak.
The oak before the ash, we're in for a splash.

Cuckoo corn - barley, wheat, oats, sown in May.

Either way it was going to be wet

I always find these little rhymes amusing, like someone came up with a positive spin on a rainy week in May!

zetecescort · 30-09-2020 7:32pm

you can't make chicken soup out of chicken shít

The Rabbi · 01-10-2020 12:03am

Ah shur fcuk it twill do,tis only a country job.

gozunda · 01-10-2020 12:11am

All fur coat and no nickers - from the OHs granny

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

boardise · 01-10-2020 12:49am

It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

kerry cow · 01-10-2020 9:11am

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

Buford T. Justice XIX · 01-10-2020 9:50am

gozunda wrote: »

All fur coat and no nickers - from the OHs granny

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

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?

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