School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 107
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- (continued from previous page)It's an old trip in your gallon. The more double the blanket, the warmer it is.
As ignorant as a kesh of brogues without the whangs. What would you expect from an ass but a kick and a pig but a grunt. Money makes the mare go an oats makes her trot.
Teaching your mother how to lift you up: said of a person who thinks he knows better than his superiors.
As you near your father and mother you will have them: said of a spoiled child who rules the home.
Love the dunghill and you will see no moats.
Run with the hounds and hunt with the hares - to be two-faced.
Putting a spoke in a persons wheel.
As tight as twopence in a bag.
To give a person lots of hot tongue and cold shoulder.
To not have room to bless yourself. Going to the goat's house for wool.
You can't make a silk purse out of a cow's ear.
Though the carpenter is bad the splinter is good.
You can't take blood out of a turnip that is going to the goat's house for wool. To escape with the skin of your teeth = to have been in great danger.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes to the bone. When you burn the candle you can burn the butt. You might as well die for the sheep as the lamb. Better to(continues on next page)
