my thought."--_Kelly._

There's a gude and a bad side to everything; a' the airt is to find it
out.

There's a gude shape in the shears' mouth.

But it requires talent and skill to bring it forth.

There's a het hurry when there's a hen to roast.

"There's a mote in't," quo' the man when he swallowed the dishclout.

There's an act in the Laird o' Grant's court, that no abune eleven speak
at ance.

A jocular remark when too many speak at once: that it is founded on
fact is questionable.

"There's an unco splutter," quo' the sow i' the gutter.

There's a reason for ye, an' a rag about the foot o't.

The meaning of this is, that a very trifling or lame reason has been
given for something having been done.

There's as gude fish in the sea as ever came out o't.

"I jalouse it's neither siller nor the Kirk o' Scotland that's
fashing him. If I'm no mista'en, he's vexing himsel' a hantle mair
about Miss Migummerie; but he needna be sic a fule--there's as gude
fish in the sea as ever yet cam oot o't--that's a' that I'll
say."--_The Disruption._

There's a sliddery stane before the ha' door.

"Signifying the uncertainty of court favour, and the promises of
great men."--_Kelly._

There's as mony Johnstones as Jardines.

Meaning that there are as many on the one side as there are on the
other; that the chances are equal.

There's a storm in somebody's nose, licht where it like.

Spoken when we see a person angry, and about to break into a
passion.

There's a time to gley and a time to look straught.

There's a tough sinew in an auld wife's heel.

There's a whaup i' the raip.

There is a knot in the rope--there is something wrong.

There's a word in my wame, but it's ower far down.

Spoken by a person who is at a loss for a particular word to express
himself.

There's aye a glum look where there's cauld crowdy.

Glum looks when there is cold shoulder of mutton for dinner, in
England, are proverbial.

There's aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew.

"'The judge didna tell us a' he could hae tell'd us, if he had
liked, about the application for pardon, neighbours,' said
Saddletree; 'there is aye a wimple in a lawyer's clew; but it's a
wee bit o' a secret.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._

There's aye enough o' friends when folk hae ought.

"Daft Will Speirs was sitting on the roadside picking a large bo