th the horse.

Because it may save the horse from falling, and perhaps losing its
life. A mere trifle may, at an opportune moment, be of very great
service.

In a thousand pounds o' law there's no an ounce o' love.

Industry maks a braw man and breaks ill fortune.

I ne'er lo'ed meat that craw'd in my crappie.

Metaphorically, I do not like to interfere with matters which may
injure me.

I ne'er lo'ed water in my shoon, and my wame's made o' better leather.

Spoken when a drink of water is offered to a person who is not so
fond of it as he is of something stronger.

I ne'er sat on your coat-tail.

That is, I never interfered with or impeded your progress in any
way.

In ower muckle clavering truth is tint.

_Anglice_, In too much gossiping truth is lost.

It comes to the hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup.

"It's been the gipsies that took your pockmanky, when they fand the
chaise stickin' in the snaw; they wadna pass the like o' that: it
wad just come to their hand like the bowl o' a pintstoup."--_Guy
Mannering._

I prick'd nae louse since I darned your hose, and then I might hae
prick'd a thousand.

Kelly attaches a meaningless remark to this proverb--"An answer of a
tailor to him that calls him pricklouse." Is it not meant as a reply
of one who may have been under the evil influence of another, and
who, having shaken himself free of it, can say honestly that since
he has done so he has been perfectly free, however much he may have
been under it before?

It canna be worse that's no worth a tinkler's curse.

It doesna set a sow to wear a saddle.

Or vulgar people to wear fine dress.

It gangs as muckle into my heart as my heel.

Ither folk are weel faur'd, but ye're no sae vera.

To be "weel faur'd" is to be good-looking; and the proverb is a
jocular allusion to the fact that the person addressed is not an
Apollo.

I think mair o' the sight than the ferlie.

I think mair o' your kindness than it's a' worth.

I think you hae taen the grumple-face.

Applied to persons who make a show of displeasure at anything which
may be said or done to them.

It keeps his nose at the grundstane.

It maun e'en be ower shoon ower boots wi' me now.

That is, since I have gone so far in the matter, I must go through
with it. "In for a penny in for a pound."--_English._

It may be that swine