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School: Meall an tSrutháin (roll number 2117)

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Maulatrahane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Luasaigh
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  1. Roinnt Seanfhocal do Chruinníos sa Bhaile (continued)

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    The shoe was lost in want of the nail.
    315) Foreign cows wear long horns.
    316) Better to agree than to go to law.
    317) Never take the book by the cover.
    318) Do not buy a pig in a bag.
    319) Pretence will meet with punishment.
    320) Do not follow every fashion you see.
    321) Never spare your horse or your wife.
    322) Unity is strength.
    323) Manners should adore ones conduct.
    324) Idleness is a short road to misery.
    325) There is no place like home.
    326) Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat.
    327) Nature is stronger than breeding.
    328) Kind hearts are more than coronets.
    329) Necessity is the mother of invention.
    330) Dilligence is the mother of good luck.
    331) What is lotted cannot be blotted.
    332) Doctors differ and patients die.
    333) An hour in the morning is better than two in the evening
    334) Two heads are better than one.
    335) Time or tide waits for nobody.
    336) Take care of your shillings and the pounds will care themselves.
    337) The younger the chicken the sweeter the
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Padraig O Huallaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shreelane, Co. Cork