School: Drong (2)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fháinín
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- (continued from previous page)If you take a thing of equal value with another person he says the proverb.
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
This is said when a person is leaving what he has and says that he might get the other.
The guilt, flee when no man pursueth".
"Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Both mean, if a person is guilty, he is always afraid.
"A burnt child dreads the fire"
"Once bitten, twice shy."
"Time and tide wait for no man.
Suppose a person is in a hurry and must be away at two o'clock. Two o'clock comes and he is not away, because the time won't wait.
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
"A new broom sweeps clean,"
When you begin a thing you do it very well at first, but you finish it carelessly. - "As bitter as gall".
- Collector
- Roberta Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornabaste, Co. Cavan