For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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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
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@quincy @sundogplanets That reminds me of a commentator's description of an English footballer who wasn't having much luck in front of goal: "he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!"
@quincy @sundogplanets The footballer in question did see the funny side of it
https://youtu.be/fiT0SviT0dA?si=KxUxsRripEhvSP7d -
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)
Slowpoke= the last/slowest
Lagging behind like the cow's tail = the last/slowest in a group
Taking the cow path = taking a meandering route
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@quincy @sundogplanets The footballer in question did see the funny side of it
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@anna I'm getting a feeling that cows may be kinda important to the Dutch.
In Hindi, "come bull, hit me" is how you say "asking for trouble", and there's another saying that translates to "whose stick, their buffalo".
@amenonsen Those Hindi expressions are very nice and concise and visual. I like that. Are figures of speech and idioms like this common in Hindi? Do you have any favourites?
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@amin this one made me giggle @sundogplanets
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@amin @sundogplanets
In Finnish we used to say "A man without a horse is a man without worries"
but now we are definitely far away from any cows, sorry@immersfer @amin @sundogplanets ...unless you count sayings like "let's go, cows, the barn is on fire", that's usually used as a way to say there's nothing to see here, let's go looking for something else.
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@sundogplanets not cows but oxen. “Inutile chiudere la stalla quando i buoi sono scappati” that's "It's pointless to close the barn door after the oxen have escaped". Meaning: it's useless to fix a problem when it's already too late and there's nothing left to do.
@sundogplanets here's another one we use: "Mangiare il vitello in corpo alla vacca". It translates to "Eating veal while it’s still in the cow’s womb" and it means squandering an allowance before you’ve fully come into possession of it.
