School: Kiffa

Location:
Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Helen Dinneen
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  1. Old Sayings
    As bald as a duck egg.
    Eggs set on Saturday are always lucky.
    It is unlucky to lend on May Day.
    When you pull out a tooth throw it over your left shoulder.
    He will jockey his nobles to ninepence; he will waste all he has.
    There's some "splank" in her - she is a capable person.
    Never speak ill of the dead.
    Have a step on you like a sweep's gasun - to be in a great hurry.
    Eggs set on the first Monday of the month will all turn out to be pullets.
    Putting a thing on the long finger that is postponing the doing of something.
    Bringing an old house about your head, that it getting yourself into hot water by saying something to someone.
    Throw a sprat to catch a salmon.
    Lie down with dogs and rise with fleas.
    You never miss the shelter till the bush is gone.
    The windy day isn't the day for the scollops.
    There are more ways of killing a dog than by choking him with butter.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
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