School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)16. Its never late till twelve, and then it begins to get early.
17. He got dog's abuse over it.
18. Al's fair in love and war.
19. Faint heart never won fair lady.
20. Be easy, and if you cant be easy, be as easy as you can.
21. What comes in on the devil's back goes out on his horns
22. Your eye is bigger than your stomach
(said to a greedy child)
23. You cant make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
24. It's not off the ground he licked it. (He inherited it)
25. He has a mouth like a bridge over a river - all that goes in is welcome.
(Said of a drunkard)
26 He'd drink Lough Erne dry.
27 "When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be,
But when the devil got better, the devil a saint was he."
28. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.(continues on next page)
