School: Carrickaslane (roll number 365)
- Location:
- Carraig Shleáin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Mary Greer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 191
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1. Only for only the sky would fall.
2. I was as long tuning as playing.
3. I have as many coats on me as an onion
4. He was as dead as a door nail.
5. Spider leaves his cobweb sign of rain.
6. A Lazy dressmaker always uses a long thread
7 A stitch in time saves nine.
8 Lie with the lamb and rise with the bird.
9 Don't make a custom and don't break a custom.
10. It is difficult to cut wool of a goat.
11 The truth never choked a man
12 Good care takes the head off bad luck
13 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
14. Rome was not built in a day.
15. Birds of a feather flock together.
16. Better late that never.
17 Never too late to mend
18. The shakiest tree in the Orchard is sometimes the last to fall.
19 It is a long lane that has not got a turn in it
20 She can sew as quickly as a horse could trot
21. Stolen goods are sweetest.
22 Hard work brings joy.
23. Keep you breath to cool your porridge
