' maiden is aye at the slight.

As fain as a fool o' a fair day.

A's fair at the ba'.

"All's fair in war."--_English._

As fause as Waghorn.

"Waghorn, a fabulous personage, who, being a liar nineteen times
greater than the devil, was crowned King of liars."--_Jamieson._

A's fine that's fit.

A's fish that comes to the net.

As fu' o' mischief as an egg's fu' o' meat.

As gentle as Gorman's bitch, that lap ower the ingle and ate the roast.

As gude a fellow as ever toom'd a bicker.

As gude eat the deil as sup the kail he's boiled in.

As gude fish in the sea as e'er cam out o't.

As gude gie the lichtly as tak it.

"Lichtly, an expression of contempt or insult: to undervalue, to
slight, to despise."--_Jamieson._

As gude may haud as draw.

As gude may haud the stirrup as he that loups on.

As gude merchants tine as win.

As gude ne'er a bit, as ne'er the better.

"Unless you make a thing the better for you, you had as good let it
alone."--_Kelly._

A's gude that God sends.

A shave aff a new cut loaf's never missed.

A shor'd tree stands lang.

"Men do not die of threats."--_Dutch._

A short grace is gude for hungry folk.

A short horse is sune wispit.

A sight o' you is gude for sair een.

"'Wha's this o't?' again exclaimed Madge Wildfire. 'Douce Davie
Deans; the auld doited whig body's daughter, in a gipsy's barn, and
the nicht setting in! this is a sight for sair een!--Eh, sirs, the
falling off o' the godly!--and the t'other sister's in the Tolbooth
of Edinburgh.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._

A sillerless man gangs fast through the market.

A silly man will be slily dealt wi'.

"He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the
wolf."--_English._

A sinking maister maks a rising man.

A skelpit bum breaks nae banes.

Ask the tapster if his ale be gude.

Ask your purse what you should buy.

Ask nae questions, and I'll tell nae lees.

"'What needs ye be aye speering then at folk?' retorted Effie. 'I'm
sure, if ye'll ask nae questions, I'll tell ye nae lees. I never ask
what brings the Laird of Dumbiedykes glowering here like a wull cat
(only his een's greener, and no sae gleg), day after day, till we
are all like to gaunt our chafts aff.'"--_Heart of Midlothian._

As lang as a dog would be bound wi' a bluidy puddin'.

As lang as the bird sings before Candlemas he greets after it.

As