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.

My granny used to say 'hells bells Morris, in the name of the wee man! Can ye no take a telling?'

Funny to hear that chute is Scottish. I vaguely imagined it was shoot, which doesn't make sense. Another one is diluting juice for squash, I had no idea that wasn't universal.

Stank ~ drain cover on the street.

It's clatty in Glasgow for sure

I only heard ‘bunker’ forbworktop rye other week. It is a bucket hence ‘chuck it in the fuck it bucket’

I remember my boss saying ‘yer oan tae plums’ which basically means ‘naw your no getting something’ e.g can o have next Monday off....yer oan tae plums!

DH grew up outside Glasgow, both parents are Glaswegian yet had never heard of an oaxter and claimed I was making it up

Well it's blowing a hoolie here today!

Is, "you've won a watch" Scottish? I used to work with someone who constantly said that to clients.

Away an' shite!

Kerry oot (meaning a takeaway meal)
He’s went away (meaning he’s gone)
The rain’s on (meaning it’s raining) - always makes me laugh, it implies the rain comes from an on/off tap or something!
The morn’s morn (meaning during the day tomorrow)
The morn’s nicht (meaning during the evening or night tomorrow)
Meet at the back o’ five (meaning just after five o clock)
I’ve a sair thrapple (meaning my throat is sore)

I think bunker for worktop may stem from the old tenement days, when the only flat surface in the scullery type kitchen was on top of the indoor coal bunker. As a student 45 years ago, I lived in a slum tenement where the bunker was in the sitting room, as the scullery was too small. There was no bathroom either - just a loo and one cold tap.

No idea how to spell this, and it probably needs a Dundonian to work it out...

"Eh'll hae a peh...an' an ingin' in' an' a"

Translation: I'll take one of your delicious Scotch pies... and an onion one as well please.

Also popular at school...Clammin' = disgusting "that wis pure clammin'' usually said about school dinner

Ah kent his faither = put-down, he's got ideas above his station but I know exactly where he's from.

Great thread, I live overseas and love meeting up with Scottish friends: we tend to outdo each other in och-aye-the-noo talk!

Clatty... my Glaswegian friend used to take me to "Clatty Pats" when I visited... ie 'Cleopatra's' nightclub ;-)

P'it your hand up and see where you're aboot' - stop talking nonsense/doing something stupid.

Pit the wud in the hole -shut the door.

Ye make a better door than a windae - move out the way i cant see through you.

I need to scrape my face - need a shave.

Birl - turn/spin

Ye'll get a skelpit erse - you wil get a smacked bum.

We're from Lanarkshire, but my gran would say "ingin" for an onion too.

"Pit an ingin in anaw"

Clatty pats, gone but not forgotten

Clatty pats, gone but not forgotten

Whit?? When??

Definitely clarty in Edinburgh. I always laugh at French pharmacy skincare promising 'clarte' results :)

‘A lumber’ - someone to escort you from a social event.

Someone on the first page was asking about the poem about the dinner ticket - I was taught this at school too. When the character comes in who is speaking RP the poet goes all out to show how strange their language is, along the lines of - ‘Ees theese chaild eb-so-lootly non veirbil?’

When I was a kid and I had something to say but forgotten what it was, my Scots granny would say “it wis either a big fib or a wee nothin”.

I always thought clart was sauce!

My mother says "get me some denner fae marks, a wee something wi nae clart"

Widnae gie him the steam offae ma pish on a cauld night .

‘A lumber’ - someone to escort you from a social event.

... And then roger you senseless.

Stick it ben the scullery on the bunker.
Place it on the worktop in the kitchen.

Or ben the hoose.
Put it away somewhere.

Away yer messages up the toon.
Going shopping in town.

Crabbit auld biddie.
Grumpy old lady.

Torn-faced, curran' eyed wee divil.
Sulky, scrunched up face child.

Put away thay petted lip.
Stop pouting.

And clarty, mockit, foosty for dirty/messy.

Bawhair as an absolute unit of measurement i.e. That car missed him by a bawhair.

"There's a hammer in the bunker!"
Meaning, you're making too much noise.
Inferring that if you want to make more then there's a hammer in the bunker to help you.

On the theme of piss and cold weather lornar I’m reminded of the phrase ‘He couldn’t pee a hole in snow’ which has a similar meaning to ‘He couldn’t run a menodge’. I don’t know if these are unique to Scotland though - it can be hard to tell...