School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 105
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- As white as a hound's tooth.
Wasting the penny candle looking for the halfpenny.
A wilful waste is a woeful want.
Economy is half the battle of life.
A brush in time saves 32.
What's in the cat will be in the kitling.
Throwing apples into an orchard, that is helping the rich.
The bitter will break through the stirabout.
Said of a person trying to ape what he is not and consequently "putting his foot in it".
It is a poor waiting for dead men's shoes.
Hills far away are green, but they often have sour bottoms.
Long churning makes bad butter.
Putting a rod in pickle for someone.
There are only two ways with a woman, give her heer head or kill her.
So fond of work, that you would lie down beside it.
An old hen with a pullets head = an elderly person without sense.
Cutting a rod to beat yourself.
Smooth waters run deep and the devil in the bottom.
Like the fellow that was clipping the sow, "Great liars(continues on next page)
