Scoil: Fieldstown, Drogheda (uimhir rolla 14462)

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1. Old Sayings of the District

   

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   "As long as a late breakfast."
   "Saturday nights' slash for Sunday's clash."
   "As old as methusalem's goat."
   "If the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn sell your cows and buy corn."
   "A full sack cannot bend and an empty sack will not stand."
   "You might as well be looking for needles in a haystack."
   "You might as well keep the tide out with a four grained fork."
   "You might as well throw chalk against the wind."
   "As bothered as a beetle."
   "There to-day and away to-morrow."
   "Many cooks spoil the soup."
   "As grand as the nose of the bellows."
   "As clean as a new pin."
   "As stout as a brass castle."
   "Getting on like a house on fire."
   "As cute as a fox."
   "As blind as a bat."
   "As white as the driven snow."
   "It is two hands as long as one another."
   "Ireland for a penny but where is

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