A listener shares a family expression to quiet kids down so the parents can speak. This is part of a complete episode.
Here’s another one of the Irish proverbs from 1813.
This is about somebody who’s cheap, a miser.
He’d skin a louse and send the hide and fat to market.
That’s good.
So cheap he would sell the louse’s hide.
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