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Cha 'n 'eil carraicj air nach caochail smth.
Tliere is no rock where the tide wont change.
See ' Cha 'n 'eil tuil '.
Cha'n 'eil Clann Mhic Neacail dioghaltach.
The Nicolsons (or MacNicols) are not revengeful.
Cha 'n 'eil cleith air an olc ach gun a dheanamL
There's no hiding of evil hut not to do it.
Cha 'n 'eil cù eadar e 's a' chroicli.
There is not a dog hetwee7i him and the gallows.
Cha 'n 'eil de dh-uaill air an aodach ach am fear a
dh' fhaodas a cheannach.
There s nothing in dress to be 2>f0ud of hut the power
of huying it.
Cha 'n 'eil de mhatli air fuighleach a' chait ach a
thoirt da fhein.
The cat's leavings are fit only for himself.
Applied to men who would palm the dregs on others, after
they have drunk the cream .
Cha 'n 'eil dearbhadh gun diachainn.
There is no 'proof vnthout trial.
Experto crede. — Virgil.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.— ^rigr.
Cha 'n 'eil deathach 'an tigh na h-uiseige.
Tliere is no smoke in the lark's house.
This is a pretty saying. The bird of most aspiring and happy
song has untainted air in its lowly home.
Cha 'n 'eil deireadh ann a's miosa na'n siolman-coirce.
Tlure is 7io refuse worse than that of oats.
' Said of mean gentry.' — Note by Macintosh. 'Corruptio optimi,'
oats being the staff of life, and men the ' crown of things '.
Cha 'n 'eil dichuimhne ann a's bòidhche na 'n di-
chuimhne ghleidhteach.
The finest for get fulness, forgetting what was kept.
Cha 'n 'eil do dhuine sona ach a bhreith, 's bidh duine
dona 'n a lom-ruith.
The lucky man needs hut to he horn, the unlucky runs
ever hare.
Nid rhaid i ddedwydd namyn ei eni. — Welsh.
Char chaill duine dona a chuid a riamh.— The unlucky man
never lost his means (because he had none !)— /r.