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«If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden»
«You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!»
«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
«It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.»
Author: Irish Sayings | Keywords: halve, halved, halving, potato
«I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.»
«My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.»
«Dropped like a hot potato»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: hot potato, potato
«I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin»
«A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground»