School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Ballinameen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 438
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile na Mín
- XML Page 438
- XML “Local Proverbs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)44
Everyone to his trade as the tramp said.
45
You cant whistle and eat meal.
46
You might as well be whistling a jig to a milestone.
47
He's a chip off the same block.
48
That's a horse of another colour.
49
"The Lazy Man's load" - said to a person who overloads himself to avoid a second journey.
50
What good is a cow that fills the pail -then kicks and spills it.
51
Hard work isn't easy,
Dry bread isn't greasy.
52
It's hard to pay for a dead horse(meaning an old debt).
53
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
54
He has a dog tied there.
55
His "kitchen" was the big one with me little one.( meaning he lived on potatoes alone).
56
Dont believe all you see, or half what you hear.
57
Ditches and hedges have ears.
58
Dont judge the first story till you hear the second one.
59
Many a person cuts a rod to beat himself.
60
He who hides usually finds.
61
It's like looking for the Grace off God in a preaching house, said when attempting, or trying for the impossible)(continues on next page)
