Article: A SOW may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it

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. ...

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