School: Baile na Mín (roll number 14925)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha Mín, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 442
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Money is made to go (a)round.
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Money makes the old mare go.
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Where's there's women there's talk.
118.
A woman, a goose and a hen make a market.
119.
Every old stocking finds an old shoe. (Said when an unlikely pair marry.)
120.
He hadn't the place of the cat in the ashes.
(Said of a person whose life was made difficult by the other members of the household.)
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Too big for his boots. (Said of a proud boastful person.
122
He is going out of his skin. (that is full of animal spirits.)
123.
The devil is only a poor scholar to him. (said of a great trickster.)
124.
Here's Tod's bless us. :- a drinking toast.
125.
He'd drink Loc Erne dry. ( said of a drunkard.)
126.
I never told the face of clay about it.
( i.e. kept the secret.)
127.
You might as well be whistling against the wind.
128.
He could whistle the fourth of August. (he was late and out-witted.)
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He's as full as a tick. (said of a drunken man.)
130.
As light as tow. ( said of a quick tempered person.)
131.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall. But soft upon soft makes no one at all.)
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You never know the shelter of the bush until it is cut.
133.Sticks and stone will break your bones but(continues on next page)
