Old Sayings

[Jamjar74]

We are a Lancashire family and my old mother used to refer to someone with fat legs as "Legs like a Mullangolly (spelling probably not right) heifer". Has anyone heard of this expression and knows it origin. Have a vague recollection it had something to do with Ireland. Would be interested to hear any thought on this.

Thank you.

[glasman]

It's a 'Mullingar' heifer - town in Westmeath, Ireland.

[glasman]

The phrase is 'Beef to the heel like a Mullingar heifer'.

[margie04]

Usually rendered as 'beef to the heels like a Mullingar heifer'.

[CokeTulip]

Yes JAMJAR - "beef to the heels like a Mulligar Heifer" is correct - used (often by a woman with very good legs) to describe a woman with large calves and no ankles - a bitchy dig! in the shins.

[Jamjar74]

Thank you all, now my husband (who is a southerner) will not think I am so batty after all.