t sook and wag your tail.

Ye're like the man that sought his horse, and him on its back.

Ye're like the miller's dog--ye lick your lips ere the pock be opened.

"Spoken to covetous people who are eagerly expecting a thing, and
ready to receive it before it be proffered."--_Kelly._

Ye're like the minister o' Balie, preaching for selie.

Ye're like the swine's bairns--the aulder ye grow ye're aye the thiefer
like.

Ye're like Towy's hawks--ye eat ane anither.

"I was ance gain to speir what was the matter, but I saw a curn o'
camla-like fallows wi' them, an' I thought they were a' fremit to
me, an' sae they might eat ither as Towy's hawks did, for onything
that I cared."--_Journal from London._

Ye're looking ower the nest, like the young craws.

Ye're minnie's milk is no out o' your nose yet.

Ye're mista'en o' the stuff; it's half silk.

"Jocosely spoken to them that undervalue a person or thing, which we
think indeed not very valuable, yet better than they repute
it."--_Kelly._

Ye're nae chicken for a' ye're cheepin.

Ye're never pleased, fu' nor fasting.

Ye're new come ower--your heart's nipping.

Ye're no light where you lean a'.

Ye're no worth ca'ing out o' a kail-yaird.

Ye're o' sae mony minds, ye'll never be married.

Ye're out and in, like a dog at a fair.

Ye're ower auld farrant to be fley'd wi' bogles.

Ye're ower het and ower fu', sib to some o' the laird's tenants.

Ye're queer folk no to be Falkland folk.

Falkland, in Fife, was formerly a Royal residence; and the court
manners, contrasted with those of the surrounding country, gave rise
to the saying.

Ye ride sae near the rump, ye'll let nane loup on ahint you.

Ye rin for the spurtle when the pat's boiling ower.

That is, take precautions when it is too late.

Ye're sae keen o' clockin', ye'll dee on the eggs.

"Spoken to those who are fond of any new place, condition, business,
or employment."--_Kelly._

Ye're sair fashed hauding naething thegither.

Ye're sair stressed wi' stringing the milsey.

"A proverb addressed to those who make much ado about nothing, or
complain of the weight of that work which deserves not to be
mentioned. It refers to the cloth through which the milk is
strained, being taken off the wooden frame, wrung out, and tied on
again."--_Jamieson._

Ye're seeking the thing that's no tint.

Ye're sick, but no s