Favourite Scots sayings?

[ChiaraRimini]

Following on from the pronunciation thread (it's Jay btw)
Expat Scot here. Get funny looks from the Sassenachs if I say any of these. Any others?

It's a sair fecht for hauf a loaf

Dinnae fash yerself

Here's tae us wha's like us. Gey few and they're a' deid.

Ah, so lovely to see the mother tongue !

Whit's fir ye 'll no' go by ye. (What's meant to be, will be.)

Buy cheap, buy dear. (If you buy the cheapest option it'll work out more expensive in the end.) One of my mother's favourites!

He c'd peel an or'nge in his poak't. (He's very mean. Would peel an orange one-handed hidden from view in his pocket rather than risk giving one segment to anyone else.)

Ga'un yersel' ! (Go for it!)

Frogscotch its WITs fir ye wont go by ye

Yabbers its Clatty no R involved.

How meaning why or How no as in Why not??

Came here to say Dinnae fash!
No one here in Glasgow understands it. Makes me very sad.

I work in healthcare and have spent silly amounts of time trying to explain to non-Scottish colleagues the important difference between when a patient tells you they're "No affy weel" (not very well, a bit poorly) vs being "affy no weel" (very very unwell)

Obviously it's complicated by the fact that when you are working in A&E and an elderly farmer turns up saying he's "no affy weel" he's inevitably having a heart attack / has been run over by his own combine harvester. Whereas when a young otherwise healthy person demands to be seen immediately as they're "affy no weel" then it's because they have a mild sniffle...

Thanks @fluffyears

I didn't know that.

Fluffyears shakeyourcaboose

The odds against it reachin' grun'
Are ninety-nine tae wan

It’s whit in Glasgow an fit in Peterheid

Yer erse is oot the windae.

"An fling an inion in an awe"

How has tripped me up a few times when people think I mean how. I don't. Stuppit.

They say clarty (with an r) in Yorkshire - same meaning.

Also foisty, which is v similar to the Scots fousty (mildly smelling of mould and mildew).

Wandering roond like a fart in a trance is a good one - self explanatory I think.

‘Awright?’ As a greeting and ‘awright!’ As the answer. Reminds me of the French ‘ca-va’ (can’t put the accents on).

@whereyouleftit I love that song lol.

Yy. Scousers do it too.

Frogscotch7 ooh I'd forgotten that! Had a boss from up there used to say "Fit dain' ".

What a Beamer. (How embarrassing)
Total scunner (sickening)
Mince for brains. (Idiot)
Yer bums out the windae (you talk shite)

It's Jai by the way (Glaswegian here)

Here, til I skelp yer bahookey!!

Heard that a lot while growin up! 🤪

Wet boak / dry boak.
Big plump o rain
Heid the baw
Cloot

Also, wandering roon’ like a half shut knife

D’ya ken...?

How’re you? Brand new

If I don't see ye through the week ah'll see ye through the windae.

Variation on scunner (poss regional): ah ye scunner an shite. (Trans: really maddening.)

Ah’ll draw ma haun oafy yer jaw! Usually said when my mum was getting angry!

Loons and quines.

(In Devon it was beaus and maids).

AuchAyeTheNo

Nope. Clatty is a southern Scots word. Clarty is Doric.

Ma heid’s in Peterheid

Dugs baws

Och away an boil ye heed

Stop Ya greetin