If the lion sees its shadow then there are six more weeks of basketball.
March Black Ram is originally an astronomical reference to Aries and Leo that has been transferred to a weather reference by the general public. Nowhere in older texts have I found it reversed for a weather reference to be in like a lamb out like a lion. It however is just as incorrect for a weather reference either way and I hear it both ways by people.
Here is a text with many interesting sayings. I quote the most relevant for this thread, but there are a lot more just about March.
Weather lore: a collection of proverbs, sayings, and rules concerning the weather
by R. Inwards, F. R. A. S. Fellow of the British Meteorological Society 1869
Here’s one more I have to put here, just because.
Wool is very irritating.
It sounded very convincing and clever to someone like me who is also a bit hazy about the order the star signs come in!
Anyway, I didn’t know what the OP was talking about until I saw the poll, but as soon as I read the options it was obvious to me that the first one was “correct”. And thanks for the entertaining thread!
I aim to please.
Occassionally the wife and I get into insanely stupid arguments and I just wanted to prove her wrong. I did. Ha!
Of course, then I showed her this thread and she said “I’m not saying you CAN’T say ‘In like a lion out like a lamb’ just that SOME people say it the other way. And so I’m right.”
But she’s not. Because that saying is clearly incorrect. Because I said so. And you did too. And the SOME people are just wrong. So there.
I may have discovered a new sig. Or at the very least a creative insult.
<goes off to find an excuse to call someone a “worm-eating fernbird”.>
So…we’ve sort of established that March goes out like a lamb. How does that tie in with April showers?
Don’t get wool wet.
In first grade I vaguely remember being taught that if it went in like a lion, it went out like a lamb and then vice versa. But then after ward, I never heard the lamb then lion. It was always just lion then lamb, so I figured it was another example of never trust anyone over 30.
Weather lore: a collection of proverbs, sayings, and rules concerning the weather
by R. Inwards, F. R. A. S. Fellow of the British Meteorological Society 1869
Giving credit where credit is due… (to John Belushi)
There’s no “vice-versa” to the saying. It’s not a prediction of how the month will end up based on how it starts. It’s simply an aphorism, that March starts out wintry and ends spring-like.
Both. Absolutely the correct answer.
Then you’ve never lived in the upper mid-west. We’re just as likely to have a snowstorm on March 1st as we are on March 31st. Same with a mild 40F sunny day. It’s a vice-versa old wives tale predictor that I’ve heard since I was a kid.
March doesn’t always start out wintery and end up spring like. It can and often does start out springlike and end wintery.
A quick google on the subject disagrees with you. The first couple of hits talk about the “vice-versa” thing. And that’s what I was taught. So it’s not all that cut and dried.
But when I was a kid, I always got them mixed up. March comes in like a lamb – white, like snow – and goes out like a lion – yellow, like the Sun.
Perhaps the only truly reliable weather proverb! 
That’s what I thought.
Well I lived in Chicago for 13 years – I’m familiar with April snow showers. We always joked that “in like a lion, out like a lamb” wasn’t true for Chicago, it was usually “in like a lion, out like a lion.” And I know that March could sometimes start gently. But “in like a… out like a” was always an observation, not a prediction.
This is the way I learned it, too.
If April showers bring May flowers, and Mayflowers bring pilgrims, then what do… hey LET"S GO RIDE BIKES!!!
BTW, I have never encountered googlefight before.
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