School: Latnamard (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 495
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- You're early in the market with your one cow.
[Said in card playing when only 1 card of a suit is held & is led first).
I'll make a spoon or spoil a horn. (Spoons were made of horn in the olden times).
A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
It's no use giving an old pair of trousers if you pull the seat out of them.
What is to be will be - call the boy back.
It's worth a day in the bog. [Said when people are glad that something happened].
When all fruits fail you're welcome haws.
What is good for the child is not bad for the nurse.
The nearer the Church - the farther from God.
The sports of children satisfy the child.
You're an old bird to be caught with chaff.
There are no motes in my eye.
You'll not go up my sleeve.
"If" stands stiff in the beggarman's pocket.
There is no use in throwing water on a drowned mouse.
I wasn't able to pull a herring off the tongs.
I wasn't able to push a cat off a stool.
Well you'd think I was beetled. (when they felt very tired.).
Butter's dear bought when it's licked off a briar.
