For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@sundogplanets in French we say "la vache!" (literally "the cow!") to mean "wow!". I don't know why.
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@sundogplanets in Brazil there's an expression "a vaca foi para o brejo" (the cow went to the marsh) which is used as an expletive to describe a situation that went very wrong; the implication being that once a cow gets into a marsh, you're not getting it out.
@brunoph I am going to start using this one!!
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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)
In Spanish: "Tanto peca el que mata a la vaca como el que le agarra la pata"
The one who kills the cow sins as much as the one holding her leg.
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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 learned a danish saying last summer: "There's no cow on the ice".
Alternatively "If the hind legs are on land, there's no cow on the ice". Meaning it's not a crisis yet. Based on farmers afraid of losing their cows, I guess!
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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 Mit Gewalt ist kein Bulle zu melken.
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@sundogplanets probably more but I have a meeting now
@sundogplanets "Je moet geen oude koeien uit de sloot halen," Rough translation: don't rescue an old cow from a ditch.
Basically it means that you should not bring up old grievances in current discussions.
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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 the UK, the railways often try to make the reason for delays seem more complicated than they actually are. This a cow on the track can be described as a Bovine Incursion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/dwdhsk/the_reason_my_train_was_cancelled/
Which reminds me of a joke. A train is rattling along the tracks quite happily when there's a sudden lurch to one side followed by another back again. The passengers are all thrown about and asking the dazed conductor what just happened? He radios ahead to the driver and asks.
The driver responds "We just hit a cow"
Conductor "What? There was a cow on the track?"
Driver "No, but I got the bastard anyway" -
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)
“Kovending” → “Cow turn” (i.e., U-turn – literally or figuratively) 
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@sundogplanets "Je moet geen oude koeien uit de sloot halen," Rough translation: don't rescue an old cow from a ditch.
Basically it means that you should not bring up old grievances in current discussions.
@anna @sundogplanets and what about "achteraf kijk je de koe in de kont"
Afterwards, you look into the cow's ass. Meaning: after the fact, it's easy to see what should have happened. -
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 not sure whether it's relevant for your needs, but in italian “svaccato” (adj) means slumped or slouching, and comes from “vacca”, cow, like the corresponding reflexive verb “svaccarsi”
(“vacca” is the most proper Italian word for cow, used in technical contexts, but also has a derogative use, and thus in layman speech usually one uses “mucca”)
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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 you're in Aotearoa, have you come through the famous town of Bulls? They've taken bovine puns to the next level. Not only is the entire town plastered with bull imagery and statues but there's heaps of punny signage, like 'udderly unbeliev-a-bull'. It's really quite a sight to behold.
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@sundogplanets "Je moet geen oude koeien uit de sloot halen," Rough translation: don't rescue an old cow from a ditch.
Basically it means that you should not bring up old grievances in current discussions.
@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".
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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
"Nem que a vaca tussa" it's Portuguese. It translates into something like "not even if the cow coughs"
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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)
Some Finnish sayings:
- Oma lehmä ojassa
- Ei niin pientä ojaa, etteikö sinne oma lehmä mahtuisi
- Kohta meissä kaikissa asuu pieni lehmäTranslations:
- My own cow in the ditch
- There is no ditch so small that there is no room for your own cow
- Soon there will be a little cow in all of us -
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 Have a rather cringy one: Why marry the cow when you can get the milk for free?
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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)
Red cow at night, shepherds delight.
Red cow in morning, shepherds warning.
Red cow in the afternoon, BBQ! -
@EF I am mostly utter bullocks
@urlyman @sundogplanets I herd you.
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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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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 remember a tumblr post about making up farm idioms and someone came up with "don't be having a salt lick and say you ain't got cows"
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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 we say 'oude koeien uit de sloot halen' which means dredging up old issues and translates literally to 'getting old cows out of the ditch'.
