| Term |
Definition |
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Tak the readiest to serve the needfuest. |
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| t |
Tak pairt o the pelf when the pack's dealin. |
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| t |
That's a tale o twa drinks. |
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Tak nae mair on yer back than ye're able to bear. |
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| t |
The best laid schemes o mice an men gangs aft agley. |
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The banes o a great estate is worth the pickin. |
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| t |
The better day the better deed. |
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| t |
Tak wit wi yer anger. |
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| t |
That's for that, as butter's for fish. |
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| t |
The biggest horse is no aye the best traiveller. |
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| t |
The biggest rogue cries loodest oot. |
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| t |
That's for the faither, an no for the son. |
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| t |
The deil never sent a wind oot o hell but he sailed wi't. |
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| t |
That's ill peyed maut siller. |
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| t |
The cat kens whase lips she licks. |
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| t |
The cause is guid, an the word's faa tea. |
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| t |
The daith o ane bairn winna skail a hoose. |
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| t |
The cure micht be waur than the disease. |
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| t |
The deil's a busy bishop in his ain diocese. |
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| t |
The day heas een, the nicht heas lugs. |
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| t |
The deil's aye guid to his ain. |
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| t |
The first dish is aye best etten. |
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| t |
The clartier the cosier. |
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| t |
The cou that's first up gets the first o the dew. |
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| t |
The laird's brither's a ill tenant. |
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| t |
The hauchty hawk winna stoop to carrion. |
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| t |
The greedy man an the cook is shuir freends. |
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| t |
The greatest clerk's no aye the wisest man. |
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| t |
The king lies doun, yet the warld rins round. |
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| t |
The laird can be laird, an still need the hind's help. |
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| t |
The langest day heas a end. |
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| t |
The less wit a man has, the less he kens the want o't. |
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| t |
The puir man's shillin is but a penny. |
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| t |
There are mair foxes than there are holes for. |
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| t |
The post o honour is the post o danger. |
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| t |
There never wis a bad that couldnae be wurse. |
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| t |
There are mair knaves in my kin than honest men in yours. |
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| t |
There's aye ill-will amang cadgers. |
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| t |
There's aye sorrow at somebody's door. |
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| t |
There's nae freend like the penny. |
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| t |
There's nae remedy for fear but cut aff the heid. |
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| t |
There's aye life in a livin man. |
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| t |
There's naee birds this year in last year's nest. |
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| t |
The snail is as suin at its rest as the swallow. |
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| t |
The slothfu man maks a slim fortune. |
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| t |
There wis never eneuch when neathing wis left. |
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| t |
There's twa things in my mind, an that's the least o them. |
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| t |
The wolf micht loss his teeth, but never his nature. |
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| t |
They're a' guid that's far awa. |
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| t |
They speak o my drinkin, but never think o my drouth. |
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| t |
Thochts is free, an if I daurna say I can think. |
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| t |
Traitors' words never yet hurt honest cause. |
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| t |
Twa heids is better than ane, tho they're but sheep's anes. |
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| t |
Twa blacks winna mak ane white. |
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| t |
That canna gie will little get. |
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| t |
There's nae poackits in a shroud |
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