School: Urcher

Location:
Urcher, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Martha Allister
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 111

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 111

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    butter came through the porridge.
    When people who have plenty and poor people are licking the crumbs round them. People say "Greasing the fat sow."
    When the children are very alike people say "She is one and half a dozen of the others."
    When some person is playing with something and some-body comes along and gives them something to do, they say when so little keeps you going it is a sin to keep you idle.
    When a person is pretending to be telling the truth people say "That is only from the teeth out."
    When a person is very lazy and trying to go about without doing anything people say "You are as lazy as butter is greasy".
    When a thing is very crooked, it is
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English