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

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@sundogplanets I would but I've mooved on.

[showitt@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Had a manager once who used to be a farmer in Sweden, during any 'situation' at work he was fond of saying "don't worry, the cow isn't on the ice”. Probably a big concern for a Swedish dairy farmer, cows falling through thin ice..

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@joat @sundogplanets right?!

The broad Scots version also works for that.

[ranx@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets not cows but oxen. “Inutile chiudere la stalla quando i buoi sono scappati” that's "It's pointless to close the barn door after the oxen have escaped". Meaning: it's useless to fix a problem when it's already too late and there's nothing left to do.

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@ossobuffo @sundogplanets
Interesting. I'm not sold on the flat rock bit. As someone from Brittany who has experienced the phenomenon many times, I understand it as a continuous high speed stream of water, sometimes at an angle, that can last for hours.

[jwneural@mstdn.social]

@Nicovel0 @sundogplanets
The only addition in America is that it is falling on a flat rock

[jonasjrichter@mastodon.pnpde.social]

@starluna @jollyorc @sundogplanets

Apparently there's a motive since classical literature, of a pig distributing the parts of its body through its last will. (Whether that's directly related to this song sounds like a different matter.)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrn_Pastor_sien_Kauh

[harishsays@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Holy cow!!

[anna@mathstodon.xyz]

@sundogplanets Another fun one: "Je weet nooit hoe een koe een haas vangt". Literal translation: you never know how a cow might catch a hare. It means that you should never assume that a problem is unsolvable.

[jhv@triangletoot.party]

@sundogplanets
I had a boss once time who, on getting an unsolicited suggestion from an employee, said "Who's fucking this cow‽"

[santiago@mastodon.uy]

@sundogplanets in spanish we say "el que se quema con leche, ve la vaca y llora"... which would be something along this "He who gets burned by milk, sees the cow and cries"

[revpuddudley@mas.to]

@sundogplanets "take the bull by the tail & face the situation"

[mzedp@plasmatrap.com]

@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.

[anna@mathstodon.xyz]

@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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@sundogplanets

#Reading #Bookstodon #Cows

[petprez@mastodon.world]

@sundogplanets

[mikehaber@social.coop]

@sundogplanets I can’t think of anything on the hoof.

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets “Raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock” Sorry, that’s my favorite

[roquette@neopaquita.es]

@sundogplanets

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.

[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!