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 SimCity Two Cows In Windows
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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: (Je moet geen) Oude koeien uit de sloot halen - (one should not be) getting old cows out of the ditch: you should not harp on about grievances or wrongdoings from the past.
Bij de pinken zijn: Being with the yearlings (bullocks). Being clever, alert, witty.
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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 am living next to these guys and had to secure my WiFi. They were downloading to much mooooosic.
(Sorry. It's one of the weak yeahmad gags ;))
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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 "like a saddle on a cow" is a russian idiom to describe something that doesn't go together with something else at all
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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 "He has a face like a cow licking piss off a nettle"
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@sundogplanets
paving the cow path
pull the udder one
it’s Friesan in ’ere
a pat on the back
pasture best
heard it through the bovine
tri ungulate@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.
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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
"There's no cow on the ice" (original in Swedish)Apparently the full saying was "There's no cow on the ice so long as the butt is on land"
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@sundogplanets there's taking the bull by the horns and on the horns of a dilemma, but not cows, exactly
@sundogplanets having grown up in Texas, I'd think I'd have more, but the only others I have are "all hat and no cattle" and "not my barn, not my cattle"
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@sundogplanets obviously the classic... "Consider a spherical cow..."
@ivor I came here to say just that
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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 German: Get the cow off the ice!
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@sundogplanets having grown up in Texas, I'd think I'd have more, but the only others I have are "all hat and no cattle" and "not my barn, not my cattle"
@sundogplanets there's one about "dumb enough to milk a bull"
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@sundogplanets Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put.
When the calf has drowned, one fills the well.
I guess this will apply to Kessler syndrome too.
@sundogplanets another dutch one: Er is geen koe zo bont of er zit wel een vlekje aan.
There isn't a cow so piebald or it has a speck.Meaning: no smoke without fire, there must be some thruth to the rumor.
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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!
