10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ON THE PIG'S BACK»
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Henry leaped from the rail and was on the pig's back! The boar squealed in rage
at this new threat and immediately dropped the man's shirt from his teeth. “Henry.
” Blue ran toward the huge boar. He saw the pig twist his neck as he tried to ...
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Cf home on the pig's back than which it is perhaps commoner, certainly more
widely distributed. This longer form occurs, in Australia, in, e.g. Vance Palmer,
The Passage, 1930. The predominantly UK and Anglo-Irish elab. is home and
dried ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
See piggot. pig's one. As pig's arse to that! or in a pig's arse, expresses dissent or
disbelief: low Aus.: since ca. 1945, perhaps much earlier. See pig's eye, 3. pig's
back. See on the pig's back, in luck's way. pig's bastard. A person, usu. male, ...
Jacob tossed the endofthe rope to Eric, who stood on theplatform and pulled
while Jacob pushed on the pig's back. Shehad quit struggling and lay still,as
ifshe hadgivenup and would accept whatever happened. Her eyes still looked
fearful, ...
Peg Kehret, Pete the Cat, 2008
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A Dublin girl: growing up in
the 1930's
An intimate and bittersweet memoir documents the author's childhood detailing her mother's desperate wish for a house of their own, her father's unfaithfulness and promiscuity, her mother's attempt to end the affair and the beating that ...
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Our Man in Hibernia: Ireland,
The Irish and Me
utterly boompsadaisy response of the lot, is 'tá mé ar mhuin na muice', (taw meh
air vwin na micker), which means, wait for it, 'I'm on the pig's back'. This,
apparently, is a very good thing, an expression that you're in the finest of form,
living ...
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The American Idea:
The Best of
the Atlantic Monthly
Along toward the end of the afternoon, defeated in physicking, I phoned the
veterinary twenty miles away and placed the case formally in his hands. He was
full of questions, and when I casually mentioned the dark spots on the pig's back,
his ...
Robert Vare, Daniel B. Smith, 2008
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
on the town on the pig's back phr. [late 19C+] (Irish/Aus./N.Z.) living in luxury,
living well, in good fortune; thus home on the pig's back, very contented, happily
or successfully placed, having arrived at a successful conclusion, [translation of
Erse ...
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Tales Until Dawn:
The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-teller
They were walking around on the pig's back. And they told him - people who
were a little distance away and who saw this - they said that wherever that beast
had come from it had to be removed from the field entirely for there were lice or
some ...
Joe Neil MacNeil, John William Shaw, 1987
He moved aside some of the short red hair on the pig's back and sides. The pig
must have blown his coat repent On his flesh there were deep narrow ugly sores.
The dried blood around them was almost the same color as his coat. "Did he do ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ON THE PIG'S BACK»
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on the pig's back is used in the context of the following news items.
The big house, moving statues and an overly-aggressive message …
Then we'll be on the pig's back. Coining it from spiritual tourism, as those deprived of the moving statues' buzz flock to seagull sanctuaries for ... «Herald, Jul 15»
West Cork: Finding the Beara necessities of life
... Hegarty's cheddar and Crozier Blue from On The Pig's Back, pork belly from Tom Durcan and fish procured under the royalty-wooing grin of ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Where has it gone wrong for Ulster's chasing pack?
They were success-starved and now they're riding on the pig's back.” But Devenney warned that the Donegal-Monaghan axis won't last forever ... «the Irish News, Jul 15»
Restaurant review: Confident kitchen team at Delahunt
... to Skeaghanore duck, and smoked fish from the Burren Smokehouse, to pâtés and terrines from On The Pig's Back, the super-tasty 'free-from' ... «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
Food File: Provenance is priority at food writers' awards
The first award was made to On the Pig's Back, Isabelle Sheridan's range of pates, terrines and rillettes made in Douglas, Co Cork. At the ... «Irish Times, Mar 15»
As the Celtic Phoenix starts to rise, it'll be 'revolution next time'
When things are good, we tell ourselves that, sure there's no need to be worrying now - aren't we on the pig's back? When the pig dies, we rant ... «Irish Independent, Feb 15»
Gay Byrne: Me, Stephen Fry and the meaning of life
My only reaction was the thought that if all those people were to send me one euro each, wouldn't I be on the pig's back? I was told it didn't ... «Irish Independent, Feb 15»
Cork's civil war over city bounds divides a village
Cllr. Joe Harris and Isabelle Sheridan of On the Pig's Back pictured on the Cork Open Gallery 1 Cllr. Joe Harris and Isabelle Sheridan of On the ... «Irish Independent, Feb 15»
Don't mind us: Jennifer O'Connell on the marvels of Hiberno-English
Chance your arm: When abroad, it's best not to chance your arm, put it on the long finger, be on the pig's back, or break the good delph into ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
Letters: President's visit to China was all about creating jobs at home
If only four Chinese multinationals set up here to employ just 12,000 people, we would be on the pig's back. It would be similar to the huge ... «Irish Independent, Dec 14»
