School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)

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   Give a dog a bad name and hang him.
   As blind as a bat.
   As deaf as a beetle.
   As black as the earl of hell's waistcoat.
   As hard as the hob of hell.
   Had not as much money as would jingle on a tombstone.
   Had not as much clothes as would dust a fiddle.
   He lives within the roar of an ass.
   Easier said than done.
   A watch pot never boils.
   Easy got easy gone.
   Not as green as he is cabbage looking.
   Long fair makes long fun.
   An empty sack cannot stand.
   As long as a late breakfast and as sharp as a razor.
   Growing down like a cow's tail.
   All alive like a bag of fleas.
   Time will tell and the frost will try the potatoes.
   Abundance, like want, ruins many.
   The liller the lollers.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peter Bruton

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mr James Bruton

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ringstown, Co. Westmeath