School: Fieldstown, Drogheda (roll number 14462)

Location:
Fieldstown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chléirigh
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  1. "As long as a late breakfast."
    "Saturday nights' slash for Sunday's clash."
    "As old as methusalem's goat."
    "If the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn sell your cows and buy corn."
    "A full sack cannot bend and an empty sack will not stand."
    "You might as well be looking for needles in a haystack."
    "You might as well keep the tide out with a four grained fork."
    "You might as well throw chalk against the wind."
    "As bothered as a beetle."
    "There to-day and away to-morrow."
    "Many cooks spoil the soup."
    "As grand as the nose of the bellows."
    "As clean as a new pin."
    "As stout as a brass castle."
    "Getting on like a house on fire."
    "As cute as a fox."
    "As blind as a bat."
    "As white as the driven snow."
    "It is two hands as long as one another."
    "Ireland for a penny but where is
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josie Winters
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Hamlinstown, Co. Louth