School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)

Location:
Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Na Siúracha
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Letting the cat out of the bag.
    A slip of the tongue is no fault of the mind,
    When it slips too often, is is caught behind.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Never sell your hen on a wet day.
    Self praise is no praise.
    You never miss a slice off a cut loaf.
    It's no use closing the stable door when the horse is gone.
    Listeners never hear good of themselves.
    It's a bad hen that cannot scrape for herself.
    Burning a candle at both ends.
    The nearer the church the farther from God.
    We must be cruel to be kind.
    A warm hand is a cold heart.
    It takes a dirty hand to make a clean hearth.
    Don-duckety grey.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Carmel Maguire
    Gender
    Female
  3. Don't carry your wish bone where your back-bone ought to be.
    When your in Rome do as Rome does.
    The darkest hour is before the dawn.
    After a storm comes a calm.
    Never take a book by the cover.
    She's a real book-worm.
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