For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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@urlyman @sundogplanets il pleut comme vache qui pisse.
Where are cows born in the UK? Uddersfield.
Why can't cows stay still? Because they're always moo-ving.
All the above it true or it could be utter bullocks.@EF I am mostly utter bullocks
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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)
"Everything is better with some cows around .."
Ever since I heard Corb Lund sing it, it's been my favorite cow expression.
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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 was gonna say "closing the barn door after the cows have left", but from what I can tell, the more common form of this idiom is "closing the barn (or stable) door after the horse has bolted".
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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 contribute the Finnish saying "oma lehmä ojassa", "his (or her) own cow in the ditch".
He has got his own cow in the ditch = He has his own reasons for asking you to do something, eg. helping to pull up the cow from the ditch.
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@sundogplanets I can contribute the Finnish saying "oma lehmä ojassa", "his (or her) own cow in the ditch".
He has got his own cow in the ditch = He has his own reasons for asking you to do something, eg. helping to pull up the cow from the ditch.
@sundogplanets Oh, and then we have the Swedish one, "ingen ko på isen", "there is no cow on the ice", meaning "no need to hurry, it's not an emergency.
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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)
This is amazing, I am learning so many sayings!!
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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 对牛弹琴 (dui niu tan qin): playing music for a cow (or doing something useless). But they didn’t have our current knowledge of how that’s actually a meaningful thing to do
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@sundogplanets 对牛弹琴 (dui niu tan qin): playing music for a cow (or doing something useless). But they didn’t have our current knowledge of how that’s actually a meaningful thing to do
@skinnylatte Having sung many songs for cows, I love this saying and also love singing to 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 Is your glass calf full, or calf empty?
The Jersey Boys moosical
The hoof is in the pudding
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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 “Don’t have a cow, man.”
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@sundogplanets "Det är ingen ko på isen så länge rumpan är i land", or "No cow is on the ice so long as their butt is on shore"
Meaning "Don't worry about it" cause the cows aren't going to drown even if the ice breaks
@jonoleth @sundogplanets In Danish we seem to have dropped the last half of that, so we just have "there's no cow on the ice" = "don't worry". I had no idea there was a longer version that actually made sense
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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 "Dat is een waarheid als een koe", which literally translates to "That is a truth like a cow", meaning that it is *very* true. I guess b/c you cannot avoid a cow when it is in front of 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)
@sundogplanets
The cheese stans alone.Stands? No. That can't be right.
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@sundogplanets In Dutch we say "Dat is een waarheid als een koe", which literally translates to "That is a truth like a cow", meaning that it is *very* true. I guess b/c you cannot avoid a cow when it is in front of you.
@sundogplanets We also say "Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put", which translates to "One closes the well after the calf has drowned", meaning that measures to prevent something bad from happening only happen after that bad thing has already happened.
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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 Irish seanfhocal (literally: oldword - means proverb or old phrase) about cows.
Bíonn adharca fada ar na ba thar lear - There are long horns on the cows overseas - Sort of like far away hills are green - they've got bigger cows over there! -
@sundogplanets We also say "Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put", which translates to "One closes the well after the calf has drowned", meaning that measures to prevent something bad from happening only happen after that bad thing has already happened.
@sundogplanets We also say "Over koetjes and kalfjes praten". Literal translation: "talking about cows and calfs", and it means making small talk.
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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 Hey diddle diddle- the cow jumped over the moon. Supposedly source of saying “over the moon” as in extremely happy.
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@sundogplanets "He has a face like a cow licking piss off a nettle"
@sundogplanets An Irish language one:
An lao ite i mbolg na bó
Which literally means "The calf eaten in the belly of the cow" which is a version of "don't count your chickens before they hatch"
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@amin @sundogplanets
In Finnish we used to say "A man without a horse is a man without worries"
but now we are definitely far away from any cows, sorry -
@sundogplanets one more German one: "Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut" literraly: Doesn't fit on a cow skin, cow skin as in raw material for parchment.
@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets another German one: "Die Kuh vom Eis holen." Moving the cow from the ice. the meaning is to solve a difficult but urgent problem.
