School: Drong (2)

Location:
Drung, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Fháinín
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 429

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 429

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Drong (2)
  2. XML Page 429
  3. XML “Old Sayings”

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

  1. Old Sayings
    "As sure as there is an eye in a goat" or "As sure as fate".
    If a person was told a story that he was told not to tell over again, and told it by mistake, you would say.
    "He let the cat out of the bag".
    If a person is not improving you would say.
    "A day older and a day worse".
    "Tell the truth and shame the devil".
    Means tell the truth at all cost.
    If you are depending to person's and each of them fail, then you didn't get the thing done, you would say the proverb.
    "Between two stools you come to the ground".
    "He is no good for King or Country!
    He is no good at all.
    "Yellow to yellow makes yellow look white."
    If a person has a yellow skin and puts on a yellow dress, you would say the proverb.
    "It is a poor mouse that is depending
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gladys Johnston
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rakenny, Co. Cavan