"Most people in Lancre, as the saying goes, went to bed with the chickens and got up with the cows.‡"
— Discworld

January 1, 1970

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‡Er. That is to say, they went to bed at the same time as the chickens went to bed, and got up at the same time as the cows got up. Loosely worded sayings can really cause misunderstandings. (p. 91)