For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets another German one: "Die Kuh vom Eis holen." Moving the cow from the ice. the meaning is to solve a difficult but urgent problem.
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Interesting!
There's a Swedish that must have had some related origin: "det är ingen ko på isen" = "There's no cow on the ice", as in, there are presently no pressing urgent problems to solve.
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@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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Oh, and political bargaining is called "kohandel" ("cow trading") in Sweden since 1933 when the Social Democrats and the Farmers' League party negotiated a financial stimulus package. -
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there's one in french:"il pleut comme vache qui pisse"
(it's raining like a cow peeing)
@bituur_esztreym @sundogplanets not cows, right? But once they took an elephant to a TV show and the elephant... pissed. I can't find any records only, and luckily so, this was in the 80s in south américa, but you can find video of pissing elephants all right... just now in a studio full of people
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@bituur_esztreym @sundogplanets not cows, right? But once they took an elephant to a TV show and the elephant... pissed. I can't find any records only, and luckily so, this was in the 80s in south américa, but you can find video of pissing elephants all right... just now in a studio full of people
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flooding.. ^^ -
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 Not a figure of speech per se, but in the US there is an urban legend about "cow tipping" - sneaking up on a sleeping cow and pushing it on its side until it falls over.
I've heard this multiple times over the years, and not one of the tricksters telling the tale had any use for my observation that the cows on the farm I grew up on did not sleep standing up! -
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 French there's "qui vole un ouef vole un boeuf" - "whoever will steal an egg will steal a cow". Meaning, if someone has shown in a small inconsequential way they can't be trusted, they can't be trusted on big consequential things either.
Also in Brazil there's "mão de vaca" - "cow's hand". It means someone's stingy, doesn't want to open their hand to let go of money.
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A Finnish saying:
“Katsoo kuin lehmä uutta porttia.”
“Watches like a cow at a new gate.”
As a cow may get confused in front of a new thing, just stops there and stares, so may a person.
@Trifolium @sundogplanets A stargate?
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probably not exactly what you are looking at, but my mind immediately saw the Simpsons"Don't have a cow, man!" is a famous catchphrase from Bart Simpson
and a compilation of Bart saying it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sdZw1gThE@kramse @sundogplanets I came here looking for this. As a child of the 80s, this was a thing kids said before Bart carried on the torch. See also, "She's totally having a cow."
It was also unfortunately a way for 80s teens to say a girl is unattractive. "She's such a cow."
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Oh, and political bargaining is called "kohandel" ("cow trading") in Sweden since 1933 when the Social Democrats and the Farmers' League party negotiated a financial stimulus package.Ah, in English this is "horse trading"
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@diazona @sundogplanets "It's a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter. It's moo"
@K4mpfie @diazona @sundogplanets
Looking through the thread to see if anyone mentioned it, I was expecting to find it!!
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@sundogplanets Will calves do? In Danish "som skidt fra en spædekalv". Like shit from a newborn calf.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/idiom/som-skidt-fra-en-spaedekalv -
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