' the wife when she lay in the gutter.

Wha canna gie will little get.

Wha comes oftener, and brings you less?

Spoken jocularly by a person who is in the habit of visiting a
friend frequently.

Wha daur bell the cat?

In addition to the fabulous illustration of the mice and the cat,
this proverb has also an historical fact attached to it, which is
well known in Scotland. The Scottish nobles of the time of James the
Third proposed to meet at Stirling in a body, and take Spence, the
king's favourite, and hang him. At a preliminary consultation, Lord
Gray remarked, "It is well said, but wha will bell the cat?" The
Earl of Angus undertook the task--accomplished it--and till his
dying day was called Archibald Bell-the-cat.

Wha may woo without cost?

Wha never climbs never fa's.

What a'body says maun be true.

For "There's never much talk of a thing but there's some truth in
it."--_Italian._

What better is the house where the daw rises soon?

"Spoken often by mistresses to their maids when they have been early
up, and done little work."--_Kelly._

"Early up, and never the nearer."--_English._

What carlins hain, cats eat.

What fizzes in the mou' winna fill the wame.

What is pleasant to the palate may be very unsubstantial for the
stomach.

What maks you sae rumgunshach and me sae curcuddoch?

Literally, why are you so rude or unkind to me when I am so anxious
to please or be kind to you?

What may be done at ony time will be done at nae time.

What may be mayna be.

What puts that in your head that didna put the sturdy wi't?

"Spoken to them that speak foolishly, or tell a story that you
thought they had not known."--_Kelly._

What's gotten ower the deil's back is spent below his belly.

What's gude for sick John's gude for hail Janet.

What's in your wame's no in your testament.

An injunction to a person to eat more: if they eat what is before
them they will not leave it in their will.

What's like a dorty maiden when she's auld?

"'Dorty,' applied to a female who is saucy to her
suitors."--_Jamieson._

What's my case the day may be yours the morn.

What's nane o' my profit shall be nane o' my peril.

That is, I must decline to run any risk if I do not share the
profit.

"What's no i' the bag will be i' the broo," quo' the Hielandman when he
dirked the haggis.

What's