School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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- Phrases in use of doubtful origin.
Hurry - Tip it like a cricket and his thigh bone broke.
Saddle the cat and run for the doctor.
Instead of improving it's better you are getting.
She was wearing an odious [?] dress.
All together like Brown's cows.
As sure as there is cotton[?] in Cork.
A sow's jig to a potato heap.
The tune[?] the old cow died with.
A tune called - The hickedy hen that broke her back laying.
Don't go to law with the Devil in the court of Hell.(continues on next page)