"'Hout tout, man! let that flee stick in the wa',' answered his
kinsman; 'when the dirt's dry it will rub out.'"--_Rob Roy._

Let the eird bear the dike.

"Eird and dike" are earth and stone wall. The proverb means that
heavy or important undertakings should have a solid basis.

Let the horns gang wi' the hide.

The horns bearing but insignificant value in comparison with the
hide, they should be thrown into the purchase of the latter free of
charge.

Let the kirk stand i' the kirkyaird.

That is, let everything be in its proper place.

Let them care that come behint.

Let the morn come and the meat wi't.

Let the muckle horse get the muckle windlin.

Let the tail follow the skin.

Let the tow gang wi' the bucket.

Let your meat dit your mouth.

Liars should hae gude memories.

Lick and lay down.

A proverbial form of expression of a man's being able to pay his
way.

"And what for suld I no have a _corpus delicti_, or a _habeas
corpus_, or ony other _corpus_ that I like, sae lang as I am willing
to lick and lay down the ready siller?"--_St Ronan's Well._

Lick your loof and lay't in mine, dry leather jigs aye.

"This signifies no more but kiss your hand and give it. Spoken
facetiously upon some good fortune unexpected."--_Kelly._

Lie in your bed and lippen to that.

Life's life ony gate.

"'And now we're settled ance mair,' said Cuddie to his mother, 'and
if we're no sae bein and comfortable as we were up yonder, yet
life's life ony gate, and we're wi' decent kirk-ganging folk o' your
ain persuasion, mither; there will be nae quarrelling about
that.'"--_Old Mortality._

Light burdens break nae banes.

Light lades mak willing horses.

Lightly come, lightly gang.

Light maidens mak langing lads.

"Light's heartsome," quo' the thief to the Lammas mune.

Lightsome sangs mak merry gate.

"Ratcliffe, speaking apart to Madge, asked her 'whether she did not
remember ony o' her auld sangs?' 'Mony a dainty ane,' said Madge;
'and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry
gate.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._

Light suppers mak lang days.

Like a sow playing on a trump.

"Trump," a Jew's harp. Typical of extreme awkwardness.

Like Bauldy's wedding, there's nae meat but muckle mirth.

Like blood, like gude, like age, mak the happy marriage.

Like butter in the black dog's hause.