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Mur dean mi spàiu, millidh mi adharc.
Tll make, a spoon, or spoil a horn.
He'll mak' a spune, or spoil a horn. — Scot.
~~* Mar dliobliran 'am bun uisge,
Mar sheobhag gu ian slèibhe,
Mar chù gu cat, mar chat gu lucli,
Tha bean mic gu 'màtliair-chèile.
Lilce otter at a river-mouth,
Like hawk to motintain bird,
Like dog to cat, like cat to mouse,
^-. The son's wife is to his mother.
Mur faigh fear d' a dhùthaich, 's math leis a bhi ma
'coinneamh.
If a man can't get to his country, it's good to he in sight
of it.
Mar fhear air chàrn.
Like a man on a cairn.
An outlaw. See ' Am fear nach mèudaich '.
Mar Fionn nam buadh, na fhasgadh do shluagh na
rèinne.
Like peerless Fingal, a shelter to the Feinne.
Mar gu'm biodh cearc air tòir nid.
Like a hen in search of a nest.
Mar gu'm biodh an teine air do chraicionn.
As if the fire were on your skin.
Dean sin mur a bheidheadh teine air do chraicionn. — Ir.
Mar gu'm biodh e air a leaghadh, mar 'bha caman
Neacail,
As if it had been cast in a mould, like Nicol's club.
^Mar is,miann le broinn, bruichear bonnach
As the belly craves, "dannock will be baked.
Mar is toigh leis na gobhair na coin.
As goats like dogs.
Mar itheadh na goibhre air an dris.
Like the goat's eating of the brier. . ^ »