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

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@sundogplanets It’s a moo issue. (I.e. an issue that is so unimportant that only cows care about it.) Courtesy of Friends’ Joey

[ccferrie@mastodon.ie]

@quincy @sundogplanets That reminds me of a commentator's description of an English footballer who wasn't having much luck in front of goal: "he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo!"

[ccferrie@mastodon.ie]

@jetlagjen @sundogplanets when my Donegal uncle wasn't that impressed with our tin whistle playing he'd say "Is that the tune the auld cow died of?"

[blaue_fledermaus@mstdn.io]

@sundogplanets
Portuguese (at least Brazilian) has "a vaca foi pro brejo", roughly translates as "the cow went to the swamp" and means "things went to shit".

[trifolium@c.im]

@sundogplanets

A Finnish saying:

“Katsoo kuin lehmä uutta porttia.”

“Watches like a cow at a new gate.”

As a cow may get confused in front of a new thing, just stops there and stares, so may a person.

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@joat @sundogplanets Interesting! I heard it growing up (US Southeast) but never "got it"!

[cynaq@beige.party]

@mdione @sundogplanets lol, in Turkish there is “whose mouth got burned from milk will blow on yogurt before they eat”

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@jollyorc @JonasJRichter @sundogplanets The US equivalent folksong is "The Sow Took The Measles (and She Died in the Spring)". Thimble made out of her nose, pickles made from her feet, etc.

[bud_t@m.ai6yr.org]

@sundogplanets "if we assume a spherical cow..."

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@skjeggtroll @sundogplanets My dad used to say "To each his own, said the man as he kissed the cow." He also had this rhyme: "I kiss the friendly brown-eyed cow/Who gives me milk and cheese;/ And now I'm lying in my crib/With hoof-and-mouth disease."

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@joat @sundogplanets oh, maybe that's why Mum learned that phrase!

She grew up in Northern Ireland and it would not surprise me if some teachers there tried to use it to teach PR. She now says it as an exaggerated "hoi noi, broin coi?"

[petermlittle@mas.to]

@sundogplanets Vachelation = Dithering between standing up or lying down.

[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)