School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 106
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- (continued from previous page)but no wool. Long fair, long foul.
To have no gawhoo of work on you.
I came on Shanks mare-walking.
A whistling woman and a crowing hen should be brought to the junction of townlands, and whichever way they take let them go.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse.
He may be foolish, but he will not eat clocks, without first taking the wings off.
As tough as wax.
He would skin a flea for the hide and tallow = he is very mean.
Going about with one arm as long as the other = doing nothing.
I have a crow to pluck with you.
The eyes were jumping out of his head = he was surprised.
What is seldom is wonderful.
All he wants is the wind of the world = a hint (?).
He's as cute as a pet fox, and as wicked as a weasel.
What would you expect out of a crow's egg but another crow. Rubbing grease to the fat sow, that is helping the rich. That fellows a cuteflow (?)= a dry, old-fashioned kind of fellow.
Stirring the penny to make it more.(continues on next page)
