Driving back late that afternoon from Co. Kildare in horrible rain, I smiled at how correct the prediction was – it was the only thing at which I smiled.
Our eight year old uses ‘sailor’ for both delight and warning. Wiki advises that ‘sailor’ can be replaced with ‘shepherd’ is some uses of the saying.
In my mixed-up youth, the shepherd received the delight and the sailor the warning – I don’t know why but that was the expression in our house.