For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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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"
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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.)
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Is fearr an tsláinte mhór ná na milte bó.Good health is better than lots of cattle
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Is deacair adharca a chur ar bhó mhaol.Literally "It's hard to put horns on a hornless cow", a version of "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
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@jonoleth @sundogplanets In Danish we seem to have dropped the last half of that, so we just have "there's no cow on the ice" = "don't worry". I had no idea there was a longer version that actually made sense
@toke @sundogplanets "ingen ko på isen" is the normal Swedish saying too, I just enjoy the archaic version more
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– '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)
Unpleasant but trenchant:
"that lad is about as useful as a blind tit on a dead heifer"
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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 "el que se quema con leche, ve una vaca y llora".
"he who gets burned with milk, starts crying when they see a cow".
Meaning people become more sensitive/alert/careful when they see the first symptoms of a very bad past experience.
