That's my tale, whaur's yours?

Spoken by a person who has forestalled another by telling the same
news or story which the other was about to do.

That's no a heel to my shoe.

That's the ane the souter killed his wife wi'.

That's the best gown that gaes up and down the house.

That's the way to marry me, if ere you should hap to do it.

A sharp reply to those who presume to be too familiar.

That's waur and mair o't.

That which God will gie the deil canna reeve.

"Spoken when we have attained our end in spite of
opposition."--_Kelly._

That will be when the deil's blind, and he's no bleer-ee'd yet.

That winna be a mote in your marriage.

The ass that's no used to the sunks bites his crupper.

"'Sunks,' a sort of saddle made of cloth, and stuffed with straw, on
which two persons can sit at once."--_Jamieson._

The back and the belly hauds ilka ane busy.

The ba' maun aye row some way.

The banes bear the beef hame.

The banes o' a great estate are worth the picking.

The best is aye the cheapest.

The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.

The best o' wabs are rough at the roons.

The best that can happen to a poor man is that ae bairn dee and the rest
follow.

Kelly is democratically angry at the questionable sentiment of this
proverb,--"A cursed distrustful proverb!" he says. "God is able to
maintain the poor man's child as well as the young master or young
miss, and often in a more healthy and plump condition."

The better day the better deed.

The jocular answer of a person who is blamed for doing something on
Sunday.

The biggest horse is no aye the best traveller.

The biggest rogue cries loudest out.

The bird maun flicher that has but ae wing.

The bird that can sing, an' winna sing, should be gar'd sing.

The black ox ne'er trod on his foot.

"The _black ox_ is said to _tramp_ on one who has lost a near
relation by death, or met with some severe calamity."--_The
Antiquary._

"Auld Luckie cries, 'Ye're o'er ill set,
As ye'd hae measure, ye sud met;
Ye ken na what may be your fate
In after days,
The black cow has nae trampet yet
Upo' your taes.'"--_The Farmer's Ha'._

The blind horse is aye the hardiest.

The blind man's peck should be weel measured.

The blind mear's first in the mire.

The bonny moon is on her back, me