Part 50 (1/2)
Het love, hasty vengeance
Het sup, het s
He wad gang apersons, ould take any pretence to go from their proper business”--_Kelly_
He was ht by the widdie
He has escaped drowning only to be hanged, as ”He that is to be hanged will never be drowned--unless the water goes over the gallows”--_Dutch_
He wasna the inventor o' gunpowder
Meaning that a person is very ti at the brod
”Spoken of them who spurn at reproof or correction, whorey cloth that soled his hose wi' dockens
”The return of a haughty maid to them that tell her of an unworthy suitor”--_Kelly_
He was scant o' news that tauld his faither was hang'd
”They're scarce of neho speak ill of their mother”--_Irish_
He was the bee that made the honey
He watsna whilk end o' him's upmost
He does not knohether he stands on his head or his heels
He wears Langton's coat o' lish, the Laird of Langton, being unarmed, turned his coat inside out, to make his opponents believe he had on a coat of ton's coat of mail,' is meant a presumptuous but brave man”--_G Henderson_
He wears twa faces aneath ae cowl
He wha mair than his worth doth spend, aiblins a rape his life will end
He wha marries a maiden marries a pockfu' o' pleasure; he wha marries amarries a pockfu' o' _pleas_-sure
”These two are always joined together, and are a dissuasive fro a , because she is often involved in law suits”--_Kelly_
He wha hts and sorry days
He wha tells his wife a' is but newly married