For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@sundogplanets the popular French term for a proverbial exploited resource is “une vache à lait”
@RLRVivaldi to me a "vache à lait" is a strong dependable money maker. Funny enough, I think the equivalent English idiom is "cash cow."
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets In Swedish there is a saying, "Man saknar inte kon förrän båset är tomt" ("One doesn't miss the cow until the stall is empty"), i.e. you don't know what you have until it's gone. Several of the Norwegian and Danish examples in this thread also exist in Swedish.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets A city slicker wanting to pass themselves off as a rough, tough cowboy might wear the hat, but lay themselves open to the taunt ‘all hat, no cattle’. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/all-hat-and-no-cattle.html
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@RLRVivaldi to me a "vache à lait" is a strong dependable money maker. Funny enough, I think the equivalent English idiom is "cash cow."
@dacmot @sundogplanets both work but one is a little darker.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets I saw the same French one several times, but didn't notice this one (apologies if I missed it... It's a long thread!)
"Il vente à écorner les bœufs", which more or less translates to "it's so windy the bull's horns will fly/rip off". Could be a Québec or Acadian regional saying.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets from the Bible (not sure which version):
"Ask, and you shall receive,
Seek, and you shall find,
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets I already told you!
And I don't chew my cud twice!
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
German: Schauen wie eine Kuh vorm Scheunentor
To have an expression like a cow in front of the barn door
Meaning confused, not understanding the situation, not knowing what to do
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets I have a few cow malapropisms…
Max Leibman (@maxleibman@beige.party)
Until the cows come home to roost. Wait. Let me start over. #WaitLetMeStartOver
beige.party (beige.party)
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German: Schauen wie eine Kuh vorm Scheunentor
To have an expression like a cow in front of the barn door
Meaning confused, not understanding the situation, not knowing what to do
@dasgrueneblatt @sundogplanets "Die Kuh vom Eis holen" -- "getting the cow off the ice", solving a diffcult/dangerous situation.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets A cow-related saying:
"Money's like manure. If you spread it around, you can make a lot of things grow, but if you just keep it all in one big pile it quickly begins to stink."
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
To err is human, to moo, bovine.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets Looking the bull in the ass
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets @ai6yr Mooooooving the needle
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets @ai6yr Grazing the surface
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets The German language has an idiom used when someone is talking a lot of nonsense: "Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut!" Literally, it says: "That doesn't fit any skin of a cow!"
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets angry - having a herd of cows
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LOL, in Finland we say that roads – in the old days – were planned by cows.
In those times the animals were let to roam free in the forest, they formed their own routine ways, people then utilised the same paths, people started to ride and drive on the same routes from one village to another, by-and-by roads were formed...
Only in the modern times the civil engineers changed this, when they wanted to create straight routes between places.
@Trifolium @sundogplanets That's probably how it worked here too!
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets As kids we used to taunt each other:
Lero, lero,
calzón de cuero,
la vaca llora
por su terneroThere, there
leather underwear
the cow cries
for her calfIt was sad before and it’s sad now.
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For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech! (Stuff like "No use crying over spilled milk" or "until the cows come home", puns extremely welcome)
@sundogplanets
The big cheese.
