Conway Mill Trust

‘He couldn’t make a dog wag his tail.’ (very unhappy)
‘A pain endured is an inch grown.’
‘Listeners never hear good of themselves.’ (eavesdroppers hear people speak unkind of them)
‘Be grateful for your own lot.’ (there will always be someone richer or poorer)
‘Scarcer than holy water in an Orange Hall’ (non-existant)
‘Sure, who will be looking at you anyway?’ (don’t be vain)
‘I would give you the bit out of my mouth.’ (or the clothes off my back)
‘I’ll scutch the legs out from under you.’ (you wouldn’t want this threat carried out! A wooden scutching knife was used to remove straw from flax)