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A SOW may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it
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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Date: 20030101
Author:JENNIFER SPEAKE
A SOW may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it
The ‘Lord Granard’ mentioned in quot. 1802 was George Forbes (1760–1837), sixth Earl and first Baron Granard.1802 M. Edgeworth Letter 19 Oct in Maria Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 10
He waddles on dragging his boots along in a way that would make a pig laugh. As Lord Granard says, a pig may whistle though he has a bad mouth for it.
1846 J. Grant Romance of War I. xii.
‘I dare say the Spanish sounds very singular to your ear.’ ‘Ay, sir; it puts me in mind o' an auld ...
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