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Don't count your sheep before the shepherd's market 

Don't assume you have won before the results are in.
"Ive aced that test!"
"Don't count your sheep before the shepherd's market"

shear your precious sheep 

To take drastic measures after reaching an absurd, irrational conclusion.
"I found out I'm not going to college and am going to hang myself."
"Way to shear your precious sheep; you haven't even applied anywhere."

Rend not the soil and sow thy oats where you graze your sheep 

Do not date and have sexual hookups where you work.
Worker 1 - Hey did you see the new girl in customer service?
Worker 2 - Don't do it - Rend not the soil and sow thy oats where you graze your sheep
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
Word of the Day on August 4, 2026

Walky-Talky 

A derogatory term for able bodied people or people that can walk. This definition was coined by disabled influencer Valerie Weber
Person in wheelchair: “look at that walky-talky over there.”

Friend in wheelchair: *looking at person who is walking* “yeah haha
Walky-Talky by odd muffin October 5, 2021
Word of the Day on August 3, 2026

Scrapnel 

(N) :
All pieces left over after an art project or home improvement.
"After we made the decorations for the party, there was 'scrapnel' all over the floor"
Scrapnel by IceSniper February 22, 2025
Word of the Day on August 2, 2026