ouse riggin', and ye'll fa' on your feet.

"Throw him in the Nile, and he will rise with a fish in his mouth,"
says the Arab; and we have met somewhere with this saying, that "If
he lost a penny he would find a ducat."

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the clean.

Cat after kind.

Cats and carlins sit i' the sun, but fair maidens sit within.

A rhyming intimation that exposure to the sun is not favourable to
beauty.

Cats eat what hussies spare.

Cauld grows the love that kindles ower het.

Cauld kail het again is aye pat tasted.

Cauld kail het again, that I liked never; auld love renewed again, that
I liked ever.

Cauld parritch are sooner het than new anes made.

Cauld water scauds daws.

Chalk's no shears.

"Taken from tailors marking out their cloth before they cut it,
signifying that a thing may be proposed that will never be
executed."--_Kelly._

Change o' deils is lightsome.

Change your friend ere ye hae need.

Changes are lightsome, and fools like them.

Changes o' wark is lightening o' hearts.

Charge nae mair shot than the piece 'll bear.

Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end there.

Cheatery game will aye kythe.

"Kythe," to appear. That is, cheatery or evil-doing will almost
invariably come to light. A qualified version of the English saying,
"Murder will out."

Choose your wife on Saturday, not on Sunday.

This saying suggests that a wife should rather be chosen for her
good qualities and usefulness, which are seen in her daily labours,
than for her fine dress or her Sunday manners.

Claw for claw, as Conan said to the deil.

"In the Irish ballads relating to Fion (the Fingal of MacPherson),
there occurs, as in the primitive poetry of most nations, a cycle of
heroes, each of whom has some distinguishing attribute; upon these
qualities, and the adventures of those possessing them, many
proverbs are formed, which are still current in the Highlands. Among
other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind
of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness. He had made a
vow that he would never take a blow without returning it; and
having, like other heroes of antiquity, descended to the infernal
regions, he received a cuff from the archfiend who presided there,
which he instantly returned: hence the proverb."--_Sir Walter Scott,
Note to Waverley