Refreshing Scottish Phrases Poem by Sheena Blackhall

Haste Ye Aff
Lang may yer lum blaw doon
Fit's afore ye will caa ye ower
May aa yer chukkens come hame tae roast.
Black as a mowdie's bogie
Dinnae teach yer Granny tae sook goat's teets!
Haud yer umberelly! .
It's a gey dreich meenister
Mony a mickle maks a minger!
Dinna birl yer wringer.
Yer bum's oot the laavie
Ma heid's hotchin
A nod's as guid's a wink tae a sparky's spanner
Dae ye think I cam doon the Dee on a digestive?
She's gota tongue that could slice salami
A bird in the haun is wirth ten roadkilled.
A fu' purse buys a stiff dram
A gype may earn siller bita wise man takks it.
A penny saved widnae buy thin air.
Better keep the deil at the door than in yer bed
Feels makk feasts an wyse cheils sell them
Wytin tae filldeid men's sheen will gie ye sair feet
He that lives on hope jist etts Big Macs.
It's an ill wind that blaws frae the skip.
Ae man's meat is anither man's hairt attack.
The cure may be waur than cauld kail.
Time and tide will makk ye seasick.
Twal heilanders an a bagpipe makk a ceilidh
Fin ae door steeks, anither lats the win in
Ye canna makk a silk purse ooto a dug's bihoochie