School: Ceathrú na hAille (Carnahallia) (roll number 7416)
- Location:
- Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Madadhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 367
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- (continued from previous page)23)to a person who puts on empty airs. Mat went to London one time and after two years came home on a visit. But he was so transformed into such a mass of grandeur, that he did not recognise any of the old surroundings. He didn't know what the old cat was. "Hallo mother," said he, with a lofty air and a killing cockney accent, "What's yon long-tailed fellow in the corner."
24) "If that man looked at a pail of new milk, he would turn it into curds and whey," - said of a sour morose person.25) "It was no more than a daisy in a bull's mouth" - a person complains who doesn't get enough to eat.26) "That man would talk the head off a small pot" or
27) "That man would talk the teeth out of a saw" - said of a person with too much talk.28) "The tune the old cow died of" - said when referring to bad slow music
29) "He would steal the eye out of your head" - said of a dexterous thief, or30) "He would steal the cross off an ass's back"(continues on next page)
