For no reason at all, please give me your favourite cow-related figures of speech!
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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 Many French phrases with cows, most of them unflatteting (for the cows, I mean).
"To talk like a spanish cow" -> to be unable to talk properly (probably "basque espagnol" was transmuted into "vache espagnole")
We don't say "pigs", but "cows" for cops (this one comes from German : Wache -> vache). Lots of "death to the cows" graffiti around.
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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)
here is a fun idiom: "milking a dead cow". used to describe continued investments into bitcoin and ai.
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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 Mum brought me up on a rich diet of silly poems, including:
How does a brown cow
Make white milk
When it only eats green grass?
I don't know
And you don't know
And neither does the cow.
And when she's laying on her thickest Norn Iron (Northern Ireland) accent, one of her goto phrases is "How now, brown cow?" which comes out more like "Hoi noi broin coi?" -
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Is deacair adharca a chur ar bhó mhaol.Literally "It's hard to put horns on a hornless cow", a version of "You can't teach an old dog new tricks"
@sundogplanets Cows feature a lot in Irish folklore - the Irish word for "road" is "bóthar" which comes from the word for "cow", "bó", because the first roads were used for driving cows.
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@sundogplanets These are SMALL. But the ones out there are FAR AWAY.
@steve199nwep I use this skit in my astronomy classes all the time to talk about astronomers trying to learn about other galaxies!
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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 That's richer than 6' up a bulls ass. Rich in this context meaning rich in nutrients, as in high quality bullshit.
A blivott.
It was used by my redneck kin as shorthand for anything packed so tightly as to be coming out at the seams. But when I asked what it was as a kid the response I got was: 10 lbs. of manure in a 5 lb. bag,
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@sundogplanets dutch:
De koe bij de horens vatten.@ReneDamkot @sundogplanets also from nl: achteraf kijk je de koe in de kont (lit. after the fact, all there's left to see is the cow's ass, meaning something like no crying over spilled milk)
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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)
All hat and no cattle.
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@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!@shivers @sundogplanets sounds a bit like "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
Which is probably another one. -
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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probably not exactly what you are looking at, but my mind immediately saw the Simpsons"Don't have a cow, man!" is a famous catchphrase from Bart Simpson
and a compilation of Bart saying it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3sdZw1gThE -
This is amazing, I am learning so many sayings!!
@sundogplanets I've learned that cows are a lot more prone to drowning themselves than I thought
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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 "Where there is smoke, there is a fire" said the flies as they gathered around a fresh dump of cow dung. — I am not sure of it is a dutch or German bonmot to express that you might be wrong even when you and others think you're right.
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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 how now brown cow
… also, the genius that is the ‘cow lick’ -
@sundogplanets Will calves do? In Danish "som skidt fra en spædekalv". Like shit from a newborn calf.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/idiom/som-skidt-fra-en-spaedekalvWe also have "som en ko på græs", "like a cow on grass" - meaning how happy the cows are when finally let out into the grassy fields outside after winter.
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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 German we have "die Kuh vom Eis holen"
(to get the cow off the ice, meaning: solve a critical situation) -
@sundogplanets
Is fearr an tsláinte mhór ná na milte bó.Good health is better than lots of cattle
Dutch: "Geen oude koeien uit de sloot halen"
"Don't pull old cows out of the ditch."
i.e. Don't dredge up old and (almost) forgotten issues.
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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 Brazil there's an expression "a vaca foi para o brejo" (the cow went to the marsh) which is used as an expletive to describe a situation that went very wrong; the implication being that once a cow gets into a marsh, you're not getting it out.
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@sundogplanets Mum brought me up on a rich diet of silly poems, including:
How does a brown cow
Make white milk
When it only eats green grass?
I don't know
And you don't know
And neither does the cow.
And when she's laying on her thickest Norn Iron (Northern Ireland) accent, one of her goto phrases is "How now, brown cow?" which comes out more like "Hoi noi broin coi?"@sundogplanets oh, I've just remembered another one!
When I was dawdling over something as a kid, she'd get frustrated and say, "We'll be here until the cows come home." -
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 the solution, but it works only in the case of spherical cows in a vacuum."
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@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.
@benni
Another German one (we seem to deal with cows a lot): "Du siehst aus wie / du schaust wie *eine Kuh auf Glatteis"
roughly "You look like a cow on black ice" (stressing the slippyness, not the optics)
@Tom_ofB @sundogplanets
