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why keep a cow if you get your milk for free


why should you do something when others could do it for you: Why is Maree doing the washing up whist you do nothing? Why keep a cow if you get your milk for free?

Contributor's comments: In Nth Qld a similar meaning as well as an almost derogatory excuse for a man when asked "Why don't you get married?" - "Why buy the cow when I can get the milk for free" (Why get married when I can live with her and get sex for nothing?