For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@sundogplanets "all hat, no cattle" - someone who looks the part but has no clue.

[michcampbell@fediscience.org]

@sundogplanets "as useful as tits on a bull" - self explanatory!

[pyrrhlin@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets While on road trips with the kids, I have (too many times) dad-joked when I see some cows “outstanding in their field”

[dacmot@sunny.garden]

@RLRVivaldi to me a "vache à lait" is a strong dependable money maker. Funny enough, I think the equivalent English idiom is "cash cow."

@sundogplanets

[violanders@mastodon.nu]

@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.

[mighty_orbot@retro.pizza]

@sundogplanets A city slicker wanting to pass themselves off as a rough, tough cowboy might wear the hat, but lay themselves open to the taunt ‘all hat, no cattle’. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/all-hat-and-no-cattle.html

[rlrvivaldi@social.vivaldi.net]

@dacmot @sundogplanets both work but one is a little darker.

[dacmot@sunny.garden]

@sundogplanets I saw the same French one several times, but didn't notice this one (apologies if I missed it... It's a long thread!)

"Il vente à écorner les bœufs", which more or less translates to "it's so windy the bull's horns will fly/rip off". Could be a Québec or Acadian regional saying.

[dwampre_scorrigank@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets from the Bible (not sure which version):

"Ask, and you shall receive,
Seek, and you shall find,
Moo, and you shall get grass."

[gmsizemore@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I already told you!

And I don't chew my cud twice!

[dasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks]

@sundogplanets

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

[maxleibman@beige.party]

@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)

[cm@chaos.social]

@dasgrueneblatt @sundogplanets "Die Kuh vom Eis holen" -- "getting the cow off the ice", solving a diffcult/dangerous situation.

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@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."

[ralph@hear-me.social]

@sundogplanets

To err is human, to moo, bovine.

[pettet8@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Looking the bull in the ass

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@sundogplanets @ai6yr Mooooooving the needle

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@sundogplanets @ai6yr Grazing the surface

[realsiegfried@troet.cafe]

@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!"

[faithinbones@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets angry - having a herd of cows