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207a. Ta ushag ayns laue chammah as jees 'sy thammag = A bird in the hand is as well as two in the bush (see Country Objects).

247a. Pibbin = A puffin (a Manxman) (see National).


 * S'olk yn eean ta broghey e edd hene = How bad the fowl that defiles its own nest (see Evil).


 * Ny nee yn rio gymmyrkey guiy roish yn Ollick, cha nymmyrkey e thunnag lurg yn Ollick = If the frost will bear a goose before Christmas, it will not bear a duck after Christmas (see Weather and Seasons).

225. Ta daa pharick jannoo un ghimmagh = Two small lobsters make a big one.

226. As indifferently as the herring back-bone doth lie in the midst of the fish.

227. The crab that lies always in its hole is never fat.

228. Every herring must hang by its own gill.

229. Throw a sprat and catch a herring (see Fishing).

230. Fish for a herring and catch a sprat (see Fishing).

231. Packed like herrings in a barrel, heads and tails.

232. Never a barrel, the better herring.

233. What we lose in dog-fish we shall have in herring.

42a. Cha marroo as skeddan = As dead as a herring (see Death).

44a. Bioys da dooinney as baase da eeast = Life to man and death to fish (see Death).

135a. No herring, no wedding (see Matrimony).


 * Ny veggan as ny veggan, dee yn chayt y skeddan = Little by little, [as] the cat ate the herring (see Animals and Patience).

234. Deeasee y charthan e hoyn woish, as cha dooar eh arragh eh = The sheep-louse lent its anus, and never got it back again.