School: Carrickaslane (roll number 365)
- Location:
- Carrickaslane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Greer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 241
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- Local Saying.
1. he was as dead as a door nail.
2. Far away fields are green.
3 Cows in Connaught have long horns.
4 You could walk as fast as a stream-enging
5 You should not count your Chickens before they are hatched
6 Your will is my pleasure.
7 I will with a heart and a half.
8 It wood Finn McCool.
9 She did it while you would be saying Jack Robinson
10 He wears a face as long as a wet week.
11 Who is dead belonging to you
12 A man on a galloping horse would not see it
13 Eat your fill and pocket none.
14 He thought he had the cat with nine tails
15 Beggars cannot be choosers.
16 Tea in a tin tied up in a bag.
17 She is away with the band.
18 It is beauty born as a painted ass.
19 Opposition is the life of trade.
20 As the old cock crows the young one learns.
21 Time and tide will wait on no man.
22 Half a loaf is better than no bread.
23 By hook or by crook I will be the last in your book.
24. There is nothing as mean as tea in a tin
