School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   haggard with oats and hay.
   A wet May and a sunny June makes the farmer whistle a merry tune.
   You know as much about that as a cat knows about a holiday.
   He would hear the grass growing.
   It's hard to put a wise head on young shoulders.
   He came without being asked, like the bad weather.
   Where the woman is, there is talk.
   A friend in need is a friend indeed.
   Hunger is a good sauce.
   A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures in a doctor's book.
   Every one has his own story.
   An excuse is nearer a woman than her apron.
   Rubbing grease on the fat pigs back.
   What the pooka writes let himself

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   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Carroll

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Fairfield, Co. Galway