For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@sundogplanets another from Brazil. "Tempo de vacas magras" which translates to "skinny cows period", used when we are facing hard economic times
@peaoPerdido@datasci.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social "vacas flacas" is also used in Spanish to refer to lean times, I think it's a biblical reference.
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@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".
@amenonsen That's one of the things I remember from reading Hoe Ik Talent Voor Het Leven Kreeg ("How I got a talent for life"), by Rodaan Al Galidi. If I remember correctly, the main character only knows one thing about the Netherlands before arriving there as a refugee: that Dutch cows are the ones that produce the most milk. For some reason that little thing really stuck with me.
Hoe ik talent voor het leven kreeg
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The English translation of the book is published as "Two Blankets, Three Sheets": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45484709-two-blankets-three-sheets
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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 can’t think of anything on the hoof.
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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 “Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock” Sorry, that’s my favorite
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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 Asturies (Spain) we say "God and cow dung do a lot, but cow dung do more"
(Dios ya'l cuchu faen munchu, pero fai más el cuchu)
So, it's better working hard than wishing or praying for something.
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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 "all hat, no cattle" - someone who looks the part but has no clue.
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@sundogplanets "all hat, no cattle" - someone who looks the part but has no clue.
@sundogplanets "as useful as tits on a bull" - self explanatory!
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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 While on road trips with the kids, I have (too many times) dad-joked when I see some cows “outstanding in their field”
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@sundogplanets the popular French term for a proverbial exploited resource is “une vache à lait”
@RLRVivaldi to me a "vache à lait" is a strong dependable money maker. Funny enough, I think the equivalent English idiom is "cash 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 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.
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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 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
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@RLRVivaldi to me a "vache à lait" is a strong dependable money maker. Funny enough, I think the equivalent English idiom is "cash cow."
@dacmot @sundogplanets both work but one is a little darker.
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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 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.
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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 from the Bible (not sure which version):
"Ask, and you shall receive,
Seek, and you shall find,
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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 already told you!
And I don't chew my cud twice!
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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)
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
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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 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)
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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
@dasgrueneblatt @sundogplanets "Die Kuh vom Eis holen" -- "getting the cow off the ice", solving a diffcult/dangerous situation.
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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 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."
