A reeky house and a girnin wife, will lead a man a fashious life.
A reproof is nae poison.
"No, indeed! but a wholesome medicine, which whosoever refuseth is brutish!"--_Kelly._
A rich man has mair cousins than his faither had kin.
A rich mans wooings no lang doing.
A rough bane maks a fu wame.
As a carl riches he wretches.
"Wretch, a covetous or n.i.g.g.ardly person."--_Jamieson._ As a man becomes rich he also becomes more parsimonious.
A safe conscience maks a sound sleep.
A saft aiver was neer a gude horse.
As ane flits anither sits, and that keeps mailins dear.
As brisk as bottled ale.
As broken a ships come to land.
"I fear, said Morton, there is very little chance, my good friend Cuddie, of our getting back to our old occupation. Hout, stir; hout, stir, replied Cuddie, its aye gude to keep up a hardy heart--as broken a ships come to land."--_Old Mortality._
As but lip-wit that wants experience.
A scabbed horse is gude enough for a scad squire.
A scaded cat dreads cauld water.
As cankerd as a cow wi ae horn.
"As proud as a hen with one chick."--_English._
A scard head is eith to bleed.
A scard head is soon broken.
A reputation already questionable is easily lost altogether.
As coa.r.s.e as Nancies harn sark,--three threads out o the pound.
A Scotch mist will weet an Englishman to the skin.
A Scotsman and a Newcastle grindstane travel a the world ower.
Alluding to the wandering propensities of the one and the good qualities of the other.
A Scotsman is aye wise ahint the hand.
"It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burned down."--_Danish._
As dark as a Yule midnight.
As day brake, b.u.t.ter brake.
"Spoken when a person or thing that was wanting comes opportunely."--_Kelly._
A seven years maiden is aye at the slight.
As fain as a fool o a fair day.
As fair at the ba.
"Alls fair in war."--_English._
As fause as Waghorn.
"Waghorn, a fabulous personage, who, being a liar nineteen times greater than the devil, was crowned King of liars."--_Jamieson._
As fine thats fit.
As fish that comes to the net.
As fu o mischief as an eggs fu o meat.
As gentle as Gormans b.i.t.c.h, that lap ower the ingle and ate the roast.
As gude a fellow as ever toomd a bicker.
As gude eat the deil as sup the kail hes boiled in.
As gude fish in the sea as eer cam out ot.
As gude gie the lichtly as tak it.
"Lichtly, an expression of contempt or insult: to undervalue, to slight, to despise."--_Jamieson._
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