Pump am y Pewnythnos / Friday Five 26/04/2018 5️⃣

Welsh General / Questions
#1

Prynhawn da!

Today is all about phrases/proverbs/sayings…

  1. Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion is overused?

  2. Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion should be used more often?

  3. Which phrase/proverb/saying do you think is often misused?

  4. Tell us about a phrase/proverb/saying which resonates deeply with you.

  5. Confucius say…

  6. Do you have a favourite Welsh phrase/proverb/saying?

  7. Make up your own phrase/proverb/saying…

Happy weekend! :slight_smile:

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#2
  • Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion is overused?

Every cloud has a silver lining.

  • Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion should be used more often?

Think on.

  • Which phrase/proverb/saying do you think is often misused?

Not misused, perhaps, but rarely quoted in full:
“Needs must, when the devils drives”.

  • Tell us about a phrase/proverb/saying which resonates deeply with you

Proverbs: 26:22. There are of course various translations of this, and I can’t find the one I was thinking of (and can’t remember it exactly), so I’ll go with this one, which is near enough:

"Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it! "
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  • Confucius say…
    Milk in first, always!

  • Do you have a favourite Welsh phrase/proverb/saying?

Not favourite, but one I found recently:
angel pen ffordd, diawl pen pentan
Angel abroad, devil at home.
Also:
Not a saying exactly, but a distinction:
dyn mawr bach a dyn bach mawr
big but insignificant, small and significant

  • Make up your own phrase/proverb/saying

Happiness is a full stomach and an empty bladder.

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#3

Think on. Wonderful, said that tio Granddaughter only minutes ago. To no effect, but glorious. Now, frame thissen.

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#4
  1. Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion is overused?
    “Cheer up, it might never happen”
  2. Which phrase/proverb/saying, in your opinion should be used more often?
    “Still waters run deep”
  3. Which phrase/proverb/saying do you think is often misused?
    “Great minds think alike” misused because the full phrase is “Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.”
  4. Tell us about a phrase/proverb/saying which resonates deeply with you.
    “All the long eared uns byunt allays vour-legged” a saying from the Forest of Dean
  5. Confucius say…
    best hour of sleep always starts 10 minutes before alarm clock sounds
  6. Do you have a favourite Welsh phrase/proverb/saying?
    “A fo ben, bid bont”
  7. Make up your own phrase/proverb/saying…
    “Never pin your ambition to the end of a rainbow”
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#5

Paid â phoeni a siarad Cymraeg!

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