Lets make like hay and bale

phr.

Heard in Cavan

An expression urging immediate departure from a dull or unsatisfactory place.

This session is dead as mutton, let's make like hay and bale!

Posh English

This social gathering is thoroughly dreadful. Come, let us depart at once.

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