230 GUERNSEY PROVERBS. 



Demande a m'en compagnon si j'sie larron. 

 Ask my companion if I am a rogue. 



Les longs discours 

 Font les jours courts. 

 Long chats will make days short. 



La pliie et l'vent sont pres parent. 

 Wind and rain are closely related. 



Qu'a un bouan jour en sa vie n'a pas terjous malheur. 

 He is not entirely unfortunate who has one good day in his 

 life. 



Chier coumm' paivre 

 As hot as pepper. 



Quasi, garde souvent d'menti. 

 Almost, often keeps from telling a lie. 



Sain coumm' une clloque. 

 As sound as a bell. 



Les coutiaux crouaisis c'hest seigne de querelle. 

 Crossed knives are a sign of quarrel. 



Coumm' un ceuf tout frais pounu. 

 As fresh as a new laid egg. 



I faut halair sus les viers tandis qui dure. 

 Make use of old people while they last. 



II est, ane de nature, 

 Qui n'peut lliere s'n'ecriture. 

 He must be a donkey by nature who cannot read what he has 

 written. 



Ill a une mine coumm' un us d'prison. 

 He has a face like a jail door. 

 Said of a person with a scowling face. 



