School: Clonusker, An Scairbh
- Location:
- Cloonusker, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)When it rains it pours.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Don't lose a ship for a ha'porth of tar.
One fool makes many, but an auld fool is the worst of any.
I took twenty years of me to make a man of my son and it took only twenty minutes of another woman to make a fool of him.
He hadn't a copper to jingle on a tomb stone.
No use going to a goats house for wool.
You can't expect blood out of a turnip.
As dead as Queen Anne.
When a goat gets into a chapel she wants to get upon the altar.
I didn't care if you were where the herring builds her nest.
If you call don't wait to rise.
Don't be while a cat would be licking his ear.
An idle man tempts the devil
A whistling woman and a crowing hen is able to draw the devil out of his den.
