{"id":174,"date":"2006-09-28T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/scots_idioms\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T19:58:23","slug":"scots_idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Smilin like a bylt haddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;ll be <em>sae cantie as a sou amang glaur<\/em> (as happy as a pig in the mud) with today&#8217;s selection of Scots idioms, which I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scots-online.org\/grammar\/eedioms.htm\">Wir Ain Lied<\/a>, <em>An Innin tae Modern Scots<\/em> (An Introduction to Modern Scots). As you may have noticed, <em>A hae an ee til<\/em> (I have a liking for) idioms, and I hope you&#8217;ll be <em>smilin like a bylt haddie<\/em> (smiling like a boiled haddock) at some of the idioms here.<\/p>\n<p>So <em>tak tent<\/em> (pay attention) but<em> ye needna fash yer thoum<\/em> (you needn&#8217;t worry) about understanding them as I&#8217;ll provide translations. So let&#8217;s <em>get on wi the crack<\/em> (get on with the conversation) and make sure we don&#8217;t <em>spik pan loaf<\/em> (speak with an affected English accent). If you&#8217;re <em>short o the Greek<\/em> (stuck for words) don&#8217;t <em>tyne the heid<\/em> (lose your temper), but why not <em>birl the wulkies<\/em> (turn somersault)? So let&#8217;s <em>caw cannie<\/em> (proceed carefully) or somebody might <em>cowp wir hurl<\/em> (upset our plans). <em>Mony wirds, muckle drouth<\/em> (much talking makes one thirsty), so maybe it&#8217;s time to <em>cock the wee finger<\/em> (have a tipple\/drink) but be sure you don&#8217;t <em>droun the miller<\/em> (put too much water in the whisky). That&#8217;s quite <em>eneuch<\/em> (enough) for now, I think.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear recordings of some of these idioms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsindependent.org\/features\/scots\/idioms.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you&#8217;ll be sae cantie as a sou amang glaur (as happy as a pig in the mud) with today&#8217;s selection of Scots idioms, which I found on Wir Ain Lied, An Innin tae Modern Scots (An Introduction to Modern Scots). As you may have noticed, A hae an ee til (I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}