For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@amin @sundogplanets
In Finnish we used to say "A man without a horse is a man without worries"
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@sundogplanets one more German one: "Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut" literraly: Doesn't fit on a cow skin, cow skin as in raw material for parchment.
@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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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: "Il pleut comme vache qui pisse", "It's raining like a pissing cow".
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@sundogplanets There used to be a slogan for firework safety awareness, which was: "Je bent een rund als je met vuurwerk stunt". Literal translation: You are a cow if you do stunts with fireworks.
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@sundogplanets There used to be a slogan for firework safety awareness, which was: "Je bent een rund als je met vuurwerk stunt". Literal translation: You are a cow if you do stunts with fireworks.
@sundogplanets probably more but I have a meeting now
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@sundogplanets An Irish language one:
An lao ite i mbolg na bó
Which literally means "The calf eaten in the belly of the cow" which is a version of "don't count your chickens before they hatch"
@sundogplanets
Is fearr an tsláinte mhór ná na milte bó.Good health is better than lots of cattle
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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 You might attract more flies with honey but you'll load more cattle with a two-by-four.
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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 German you say "that way we get the cow off the ice" to describe zhe solution to an imminent problem
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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 Swiss German: Es isch dunkel wie innere Chue. "It's dark like inside 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 That's udderly useless.
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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)
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Finnish:
Laskee kuin lehmän häntä
(Something) drops (decreases) like a cow's tail -
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 Danish: "der er ingen ko på isen". There's no cow on the ice, meaning don't worry, no problems/danger
https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?subentry_id=59005163&query=der+er+ingen+ko+p%C3%A5+isen. -
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)
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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 dutch:
De koe bij de horens vatten. -
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)
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Eine Milchmädchenrechnung =
a milkmaid's calculationmeaning, it doesn't add up.
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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)
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Cow puns how udderly delightful -
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)
– 'Nearly' never bulled a cow
– As useful as tits on a bull
– To every cow its calf, to every book its copy. (A copyright ruling by King Diarmait mac Cerbaill in Ireland circa CE 561)
– He has his own cow in the ditch (Finnish: He is putting his own interests over those of the community)
– There won't be a cow milked in [place] tonight (Ireland: People in that place will be too busy celebrating their team's win)
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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 Sometimes you got to be the Mrs. O'Leary's cow that you want to see in the world.
(a bit overwrought, sorry)
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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)
"We'll have to let her down gently"
Sounds innocuous enough, unless you have a cow which has got into the clover patch, and now has a bloated stomach, which is causing all sorts of internal distress.
The vet uses a large needle, and a stabby motion, to let the cow down - like letting a balloon down, not disappointing someone. -
@sundogplanets Eine Kuh macht Muh, viele Kühe machen Mühe
(hard to translate German pun, roughly "one cow says moo, many cows create mooch work")@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
Wow, excellent translation! Congrats!(Until a few seconds ago, I would have considered this utterly untranslateable.)
