is exclusively Scottish, means that a person who
has been slighted, or whose services have been despised, may have an
opportunity of retaliating at a future time.

The king may come to Kelly yet, and when he comes he'll ride.

"It signifies that the time may come that I may get my revenge upon
such people, and then I will do it to purpose."--_Kelly._

The kirk's aye greedy.

The kirk's muckle, but ye may say mass i' the end o't.

"Spoken when people say something is too much, intimating that they
need take no more than they have need for."--_Kelly._

The laird may be laird, and still need the hind's help.

The laird's brither's an ill tenant.

The langer we live we see the mair ferlies.

The langest day has an end.

The lass that has ower mony wooers aft wales the warst.

The lass that lightlies may lament.

To "lightlie" is to despise or treat with contempt.

The lazy lad maks a stark auld man.

The lean dog is a' fleas.

The leeful man is the beggar's brither.

The less debt the mair dainties.

"The less I lee."

This is merely a phrase, but a very expressive one. It implies
emphatically that "the _whole_ truth, and _nothing_ but the truth,"
has been told.

The less wit a man has, the less he kens the want o't.

The loudest bummer's no the best bee.

The lucky pennyworth sells soonest.

The mair cost the mair honour.

The mair dirt the less hurt.

The mair mischief the better sport.

The mair the merrier; the fewer better cheer.

The mair ye steer the mair ye'll sink.

The maister's brither's an ill servant.

The maister's ee maks the horse fat.

A fat man riding upon a lean horse was asked how it came to pass
that he was so fat while his horse was so lean? "Because," said he,
"I feed myself, but my servant feeds the horse."

"The master's eye puts meat on the horse's ribs."--_Irish._

The maister's foot's the best measure.

The man may eithly tine a stot that canna count his kine.

Or the man who does not know his business cannot look properly after
it.

The man wha sits on the silk goun-tail o' the wife wha's tocher bought
it, never sits easy.

The maut's abune the meal.

"Donald Bean Lean, being aware that the bridegroom was in request,
and wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, hook the siller), he
cannily carried off Gilliewhackit ae night when he was riding
_dovering_ hame (wi' the maut