a clean pow that ca's his neighbour nitty now.

"A man ought to be free of those faults that he throws up to
others."--_Kelly._

He has neither stock nor brock.

He has neither money nor meat.

He has ower many greedy gleds o' his ain.

Meaning that a man has too many family claims upon his generosity to
meet, to be able to attend to those of strangers.

He has skill o' roasted woo--when it stinks it's ready.

He has some sma' wit, but a fool has the guiding o't.

He has soon done that never dought.

He has spur metal in him.

He has swallowed a flee.

He has ta'en the country on his back.

A proverbial expression of the fact that a man has run away.

He hastit to his end like a moth to a candle.

He has the best end o' the string.

He has the gift o' the gab.

"'I wish,' said Dumbiedikes, 'I were as young and as supple as you,
and had the gift o' the gab as weel.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._

He has wit at will that wi' an angry heart can sit still.

He hauds baith heft and blade.

That is, he has a thing entirely at his own option.

He hearsna at that ear.

He hears wi' his heels, as the geese do in hairst.

"That is, he heard, had he been pleased to answer."--_Kelly._

He hid a bodle and thought it a hoard.

He hides his meat and seeks for mair.

"Spoken when covetous people pretend poverty, and conceal their
wealth to plead pity."--_Kelly._

He is not a merchant bare, that hath either money, worth, or ware.

"A good merchant may want ready money."--_Kelly._

He jump'd at it, like a cock at a grossart.

"'I had quite forgotten,' said Tyrrel, 'that the inn was your own;
though I remember you were a considerable landed proprietor.' 'Maybe
I am,' replied Meg, 'maybe I am not; and if I be, what for no? But
as to what the laird, whose grandfather was my father's landlord,
said to the new doings yonder--he just jumped at the ready penny,
like a cock at a grossart.'"--_St Ronan's Well._

He keeps his road weel enough wha gets rid o' ill company.

He kens a'thing that opens and steeks.

He kens his ain groats amang other folk's kail.

He kens how many beans mak five.

He kens how to butter a whiting.

The import of the two preceding sayings is, that a man is very sharp
in looking after his own interests.

He kens how to turn his ain cake.

"'Never fash your beard, Mr Bide-the-Bent,' replied Gir