School: Páirc Íseal (C.) (roll number 4794)
- Location:
- Lowpark, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Sorcha Ní Dhumhnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)18. Every cock can crow on his own dung-hill.
19. Too late to spare when all is spent.
20. Closing the stable, when the steed is gone.
21. Closing the door after the robbery.
22. Hunger is good sauce.
23. You cannot make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.
24. Sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.
25.Leave very well alone.
26. As slippery as an eel.
27. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
28. As honest as an egg.
29. Don't count your chickens until they are hatched.
30. He is the best hurler who sits on the fence.
31. Hills far away look green.
32. Empty vessels make most noise.
33. All is not gold that glitters.
34. God fits the back to the burden.
35. Ill is the wind that blows no good.(continues on next page)
