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)
Two German ones:
"Die Kuh vom Eis holen" ("getting the cow off the ice") - resolving a difficult situation
"Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut" (this goes on no cow-skin) - expressing mild outrage
(sorry, no puns involved)
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@amin ohhhh I love that Afghan proverb!
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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 there's taking the bull by the horns and on the horns of a dilemma, but not cows, exactly
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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)
"You can't eat a steak and later complain there is no more milk".
In a press release I sold that for "ancient wisdom" but actually I invented it 10 minutes before.
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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 "Det är ingen ko på isen så länge rumpan är i land", or "No cow is on the ice so long as their butt is on shore"
Meaning "Don't worry about it" cause the cows aren't going to drown even if the ice breaks
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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
paving the cow path
pull the udder one
it’s Friesan in ’ere
a pat on the back
pasture best
heard it through the 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 Originally French: "You speak French like a cow in Spain"
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@sundogplanets Eine Kuh macht Muh, viele Kühe machen Mühe
(hard to translate German pun, roughly "one cow says moo, many cows create mooch work")@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.
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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 Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put.
When the calf has drowned, one fills the well.
I guess this will apply to Kessler syndrome 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 “il pleut comme vache qui pisse”
French, it’s raining like a pissing cow. -
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)
Как корова языком слизала.
Чья бы корова мычала, а твоя бы молчала.
Молоко у коровы на языке: как покормишь, так и подоишь.
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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 SimCity Two Cows In Windows
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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 Dutch: (Je moet geen) Oude koeien uit de sloot halen - (one should not be) getting old cows out of the ditch: you should not harp on about grievances or wrongdoings from the past.
Bij de pinken zijn: Being with the yearlings (bullocks). Being clever, alert, witty.
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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 am living next to these guys and had to secure my WiFi. They were downloading to much mooooosic.
(Sorry. It's one of the weak yeahmad gags ;))
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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 "like a saddle on a cow" is a russian idiom to describe something that doesn't go together with something else at all
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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 "He has a face like a cow licking piss off a nettle"
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@sundogplanets
paving the cow path
pull the udder one
it’s Friesan in ’ere
a pat on the back
pasture best
heard it through the bovine
tri ungulate@urlyman @sundogplanets il pleut comme vache qui pisse.
Where are cows born in the UK? Uddersfield.
Why can't cows stay still? Because they're always moo-ving.
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@sundogplanets there's taking the bull by the horns and on the horns of a dilemma, but not cows, exactly
@sundogplanets having grown up in Texas, I'd think I'd have more, but the only others I have are "all hat and no cattle" and "not my barn, not my cattle"
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@sundogplanets obviously the classic... "Consider a spherical cow..."
@ivor I came here to say just that
