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 in French we say "la vache!" (literally "the cow!") to mean "wow!". I don't know why.
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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 These are SMALL. But the ones out there are FAR AWAY.
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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 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-spaedekalv -
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 Holy cow!
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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)
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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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