School: Latnamard (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 487
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- (continued from previous page)Feathering your own nest.
The Priest christens his own child first.
You'll sit on an egg less. [Anyone proposing to do something or buy something that the old people considered they shouldn't be allowed to do.]
If things had to be done again they'd be done in a different way.
Everybody knows where their own shoe tightens them.
If the cap fits - wear it.
The drop follows the scollop.
As the old cock crows, the young one learns.
Your thumb will slip off it this time. [If young people intended doing something which their elders disapproved of].
Doesn't the wool grow soft on you.
Modest maolly the biggest devil in the byre.
A nice bride is easy dressed.
You're a queer hare to be caught in butter.
It's a sore heart that never rejoices
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
Man but that was a peeled egg for him. [Said when a person gets something easily].
Lig in. [meaning work hard).
Man but weren't you mealy - mouthed. (Said of a person who didn't stand up for himself).
The old dog for the hard road.(continues on next page)
