That’s how the saying goes right? Someone said it’s ‘out like a lamb’, but that makes no sense, lambs don’t go out.
If a lion comes in, I’m guessing the lamb will at least try to get out.
I’ve always heard it as “March comes in like a lion, and out like a lamb.” Not “goes out.”
I’m pretty sure it’s “March come in lying and goes out on the lam.”
march starts in winter and ends in spring. the way the month starts will be opposite of how it ends, according to the saying.
if march starts with storms and fury, it is like a lion. if march ends with sweet and gentle weather it is like a lamb.
I can’t ever hear that phrase without thinking of that SNL sketch. One of Belushi’s best moments.
That’s a lotta sheep-dip…
Well, if the lion eats the lamb, it goes out in a slightly altered form.
They go out to bars!
I’ve always wondered what they say in the Southern Hemisphere. Do Aussies say September comes in like a Tasmanian Devil and goes out like an emu?
(Belushi may have hit upon something there.)
If this is a serious question, the answer is that March weather is wild like a lion at the start(comes in), but ends up mild like a lamb when it ends(goes out).
The way I always heard it, it was that if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb; and if it comes in like a lamb, it will go out like a lion. I.e. it’s a folk wisdom way of predicting the weather, in the same category as “If the groundhog sees his shadow…”
If it goes out like a lamp, then it needs to come in like a line.
Fortunately the days are getting longer by the time it goes out.