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

[hszakher@mastodon.world]

@sundogplanets in Egypt we say "we say that's a bull but you keep saying let's milk it" نقول طور، تقولوا احلبوه. Used when someone refuses to give up on an idea that won't work. In Egypt there's native buffalo's جاموس where females have horns like bulls (hence the confusion) it's even featured on the 5 pound banknotes

[daseinsappeal@troet.cafe]

@sundogplanets French vachement = a lot (like a cow). Don't know whether they 're still saying it, but "vachement chouette" (very pretty / as owl like a cow) was a thing in the 80s.

[kallekn@mastodonsweden.se]

@immersfer @sundogplanets That's what my teacher at grade school used to say when the class did poorly in exam.

[da_kink@defcon.social]

@sundogplanets A dutch saying "Hoe een koe een haas vangt". How a cow catches a hare, meaning you never know how things will pan out eventually

[algocompsynth@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Did you hear about the cow that swallowed a bottle of ink and mooed indigo?

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@stufromoz
This is actually the source of the term "Brownian motion".

Undoubtedly
@sundogplanets @futzle

[astrodisastro@scicomm.xyz]

@sundogplanets Maybe I am a bit late but there is a saying here in Veneto (Italy): "La boca no l'è straca se no la sa da vaca" = the mouth is not tired until it tastes like cow. Meaning you can't say your lunch is complete until you have eaten some cheese (which I just duly did).

[bitanath@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets cowabunga!! - Bart Simpson (probably)

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@jollyorc @JonasJRichter @sundogplanets A new hymen?

[rlrvivaldi@social.vivaldi.net]

@sundogplanets the popular French term for a proverbial exploited resource is “une vache à lait”

[freequaybuoy@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_My_Cow%3F

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets During a heavy rainstorm in Texas, I heard a Texan say 'sounds like a cow pissing on a flat rock.'

It's one of the most Texan things I've ever heard.

[freequaybuoy@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets What do cows drink?

Water.

[trifolium@c.im]

@ccferrie @sundogplanets

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.

[jollyorc@social.5f9.de]

@starluna @JonasJRichter @sundogplanets It is a bit of a bawdy tune...

[starluna@mastodon.social]

@jollyorc @JonasJRichter @sundogplanets Sounds like fun.

[fennix@infosec.space]

@sundogplanets

My grandma had the best country sayings:
[Target of her ire] has all the personality of the south end of a northbound cow.

[kgjengedal@snabelen.no]

@nuintari I remember having heard a variation that went something like "it doesn't matter who owns the cow, as long as you get the milk". @sundogplanets

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@sundogplanets "attempts to cow the parliament into … "

EDRi (@edri@eupolicy.social)

3/3 🚨 With the Parliament still unconvinced, four EU Commissioners decided to interfere, trying to pressure MEPs to support their mass surveillance proposal, even promoting the interests of #BigTech companies like Google, Meta and Snapchat! Despite this blatant attempt to cow the Parliament into abandoning their position, MEPs held strong and continued to reject the mass scanning of our private communications 👏🏽 This is the democratic accountability we expect and deserve from our lawmakers!

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[ossobuffo@triangletoot.party]

@brunogirin @sundogplanets I’ve read it in English as “like a cow pissing on a flat rock.”