It's ill limping before cripples.
It's ill meddling between the bark and the rind.
"It is a troublesome and thankless office to concern ourselves in the jars and outfalls of near relations, as man and wife, parents and children, &c."-- Kelly.
It's ill praising green barley.
Because it is hard to tell how it will turn out.
It's ill speaking between a fu' man and a fasting.
"I have been waiting this hour for you, and I have had a snack myself; and, as they used to say in Scotland in my time--I do not ken if the word be used now--there is ill talking between a full body and a fasting."-- Heart of Midlothian.
It's ill taking corn frae geese.
It's ill to be ca'd a thief, an' aye found picking.
"It is ill to have a bad name, and to be often found in a suspicious place or posture."-- Kelly.
It's ill to mak an unlawful oath, but waur to keep it.
It's ill to put a blythe face on a black heart.
It's ill to quarrel wi' a misrid warld.
It's ill to say it's wrang when my lord says it's right.
It is ill or dangerous to speak against those who are in authority.
It's ill to tak the breeks aff a Hielandman.
Highlanders proper wear none, so it means It is difficult to take from a person that which he does not possess.
It's ill waur'd that wasters want.
It's kittle for the cheeks when the hurlbarrow gaes ower the brig o' the nose.
It's kittle shooting at corbies and clergy.
"As for your priesthood, I shall say but little,
Corbies and clergy are a shot right kittle;
But under favour o' your langer beard,
Abuse o' magistrates might weel be spared."
Burns.
It's kittle to wauken sleeping dogs.
It's lang ere ye saddle a foal.
It's lang or four bare legs gather heat in a bed.
Applied to young people who get married before they have all that is necessary for housekeeping.
"It's comfort to hae a frugal woman for a helpmate ; but ye ken now-a-days it's no the fashion for bare legs to come thegether. The wife maun hae something to put in the pot as weel as the man."- The Entail.
It's lang or Like-to-dee fills the kirkyaird.
Spoken of those who are always complaining how ill they are, and likely to die; but who, nevertheless, generally contrive to live as long as other people.
It's lang or the deil dees at the dike side.
That is, it will be long ere we hear of the removal or death of a particular person who is a cause of annoyance to us.
It's lang or ye need cry "Schew!" to an egg.
It's lang to Lammas.
"Spoken in jest when we forget to lay down bread at the table, as if we had done it designedly, because it will be long ere new bread come."-- Kelly.
It's like Truffy's courtship, short but pithy.
It's little o' God's might that makes a poor man a knight.
It's muckle gars tailors laugh, but souters girn aye.
It's nae laughing to girn in a widdy.
To "girn in a widdy" us to laugh or girn when a halter is round the neck--meaning that it is no joke to be placed in a difficult or dangerous position.
It's nae play when ane laughs and anither greets.
It's nae shift to want.
It's nae sin to tak a gude price, but in gieing ill measure.
It's nae main ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang barefit.
"Mattie had ill will to see me set awa on this ride, and grat awee, the silly tawpine ; but it's nae mair ferlie to see a woman greet than to see a goose gang barefit."- Rob Roy.
It's nae wonder wasters want and lathrons lag behint.
It's needless pouring water on a drowned mouse.
It's neither a far road nor a foul gate.
It's neither here nor there, nor yet ayont the water.
It's neither rhyme nor reason.
It's no aye gude i' the maw what's sweet i' the mouth.
It's no easy to straucht in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
It's no for nought that the gled whistles.
"'I think,' said John Gudyill, while he busied himself in re-charging his guns, 'they hae fund the falcon's neb a bit ower hard for them-it's no for nought that the hawk whistles.'"- Old Mortality.
It's no lost what a friend gets.
It's no safe wading in unco waters.
It's no the burden, but the owerburden, that kills the beast.
It's no the cowl that maks the friar.
It's no the gear to traike.
"'Wha kens what would be the upshot o' a second marriage?'
"'That's hooking far ben,' replied the laird; 'my wife, to be sure, is a frail woman, but she's no the gear that 'ill traike.'"-- The Entail.
It's no the rumblin' cart that fa's first ower the brae.
It is not the oldest or most likely person that dies first.
It's no tint that comes at last.
It's no "What is she ?" but "What has she ?"
It's no what we hae, but what we do wi' what we hae, that counts in heaven.
It's ower far between the kitchen an' the ha'.
It's ower late to lout when the head's got a clout.
"It is too late to throw water on the cinders when the house is burnt down."-- Danish.
It's ower late to spare when the back's hare.
It's ower weel hoardet that canna be found.
It's past joking when the head's aff.
It's sair to haud drink frae drouth.
It spreads like muirburn.
"Muirburn," furze on fire. Said of ill news.
It's stinking praise comes out o' ane's ain mouth.
It stinks like a brock.
"Our gentry care sae little
For delvers, ditchers, and sic cattle ;
They gang as saucy by poor folk,
As I would by a stinking brock."-- Burns.
It's the barley pickle breaks the naig's back.
It's the best feather in your wing.
It's the best spoke in your wheel.
It's the laird's commands, an' the loon maun loup.
Orders from those in authority, no matter how ridiculous or unreasonable, must be obeyed. "There's nae bailie-courts among them. . . . But it's just the laird's command, and the loon maun loup; and the never anither law hae they but the length o' their dirks."-- Rob Roy.
It's the life o' an auld hat to be weel cocket.
It's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae.
"Ghaist ! my certie, I shall ghaist them--if they had their heads as muckle on their wark as on their daffing they wad play na sic pliskies--it's the wanton steed that scaurs at the windlestrae. Ghaists I wha e'er heard of ghaists in an honest house !"-- St Ronan's Well.
It's the waur o' the wear.
It's time enough to mak my bed when I'm gaun to lie down.
It's time enough to skreigh when ye're strucken.
It's weak i' the wow, like Barr's cat.
It's weel that our fauts are no written in our face.
It's weel won that's aff the wame.
Or well saved that is won from the belly.
It was but their claes that cast out.
"That is, the quarrel was not real but only with design, in order to accomplish some end."-- Kelly.
It was my luck, my leddy, and I canna get by it.
It wasna for naething that the cat licket the stane.
It were a pity to put a foul hand on't.
It were a pity to refuse ye, ye seek sae little.
It will aye be a dirty dub between them.
"A dirty dub," a puddle of foul water. That is, it will always be a cause of contention between them.
It will be a feather in your cap.
It will be a feather out o' your wing.
it will be a het day gars you startle.
It will be an ill web to bleach.
It will be lang ere you wear to the knee lids.
It will be the last word o' his testament.
That is, he will delay doing a thing as long as possible.
It will come out yet, like hommel corn.
"Hommel corn," grain that has no beard. The meaning of the proverb is, that on account of particular circumstances, a certain result may be expected in due time.
It will baud out an honest man, but naething 'll haud out a rogue.
It will mak a braw show in a landward kirk.
Spoken when a person is asked to give an opinion of something which is considered vulgar-that a gaudy article of dress will look well in a country church-but only there.
It would be a hard task to follow a black dockit sow through a burnt muir this night.
It would be a pity to hae spoilt twa houses wi' them.
"Spoken when two ill-natured people are married.'-- Kelly.
It would do a blind man gude to see't.
I will add a stane to his cairn.
A "cairn" is a heap of stones thrown together in a conical form to mark the grave, or in memory, of a person. To add a stone may mean, proverbially, that a person will bear testimony to the good qualities of another.
"I winna mak a toil o' a pleasure," quo' the man when he buried his wife.
"A man going under his wife's head to the grave was bid go faster, because the way was long and the day short; answered, 'I will not make a toil of a pleasure.'"-- Kelly.
I wat weel how the world wags; he's best lik'd wha has maist bags.
I winna mak fish o' ane an' flesh o' anither.
I will favour no one, but will treat all alike.
I wish I had a string in his lug.
I wish it may be the first sight ye'll see.
An expression used when a person is telling that he has received a promise of something welcome-it may be payment of an outstanding account.
I wish you had brose to lay the hair o' your beard.
I wish you had wist what you said.
I wish you may hae as muckle Scotch as tak you to your bed.
"Spoken when out companions, beginning to take with the drink, begin to speak Latin, . . . believing that by and by they will be at that pass that they will be able to speak no language."-- Kelly.
I wish you may lamb in your lair, as mony a good ewe has done.
I wish you readier meat than a rinnin' hare.
I wish you the gude o't that the dogs get o' grass.
I wish you were able, e'en though you didna do't. 
I wish you were laird o' your word.
I would as soon see your nose cheese and the cat get the first bite o't.
I would hae something to look at on Sunday.
The reply of a man who is asked of what use a wife would be to him.
I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
That is, your services do not compensate for the annoyance you cause.
I wouldna ca' the king my cousin.
Expressive of contentment.
I wouldna fodder you for a' your muck.
Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.
I wouldna hae kent ye ill had met ye in my parritch.
A phrase to express that a person whom you had not seen for a long time had so much altered in appearance as to be scarcely recognisable.
I would rather see't than hear tell o't, as blind Pate said.
I would sooner be your Bible than your horse.
A jocular allusion to the fact that a person neglects the one, but overworks the other.
I would sooner gae by his door than ower his grave.
"Nothing but a wish that our sick friend may recover."-- Kelly.
I would sooner hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep.
Or abroad early in the morning than late at night.
I would sooner my bannock burn than that you should turn't.
That is, I would rather allow an article to spoil than be indebted to you for assistance in keeping it right.
I would sooner see ye fleipeyed, like a French cat.
"A disdainful rejection of an unworthy proposal ; spoken by bold maids to the vile offers of young fellows."-- Kelly.

JEDDART justice--first hang a man syne try him.
"According to Crawford, in his Memoirs, the phrase Jedburgh justice took its use in 1574, on the occasion of the Regent Morton there and then trying and condemning, with cruel precipitation, a vast number of people who had offended against the laws, or against the supreme cause of his lordships faction. A different origin is assigned by the people. Upon the occasion, say they, of nearly twenty criminals being tried for one offence, the jury were equally divided in opinion as to a verdict, when one who had been asleep during the whole trial suddenly awoke, and, being interrogated for his vote, vociferated, 'Hang them a' !'
"The English phrase 'Lidford Law,' commemorated by Grose, bears the same signification."-- Robert Chambers.
Jock's a mislear'd imp, but ye're a run deil.
That is, "Jock," although very mischievous, is a quiet and well-behaved person compared to you.
Joke at leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe yoursel.
Jouk, and let the jaw gang by.
Literally, stoop, and let the rush of water go over your head; meaning, yield to adverse circumstances, and their effects will pass away.
"Just as it fa's," quo' the wooer to the maid.
"A courtier went to woo a maid she was dressing supper with a drop at her nose. She asked him if he would stay all night; he answered, 'Just as it falls:' meaning, if the drop fell among the meat, he would be off; if it fell by, he would stay."-- Kelly.

Just enough and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearer's meat.
Just, father, just; three half-crowns mak five shillings; gie me the money and I'll pay the man.

KAIL hains bread.
Kame sindle, kame sair.
If the hair is seldom combed it soon becomes a difficult and painful operation to perform. Proverbially applied when simple but necessary matters of business are neglected to such an extent they become troublesome.
Kamesters are aye creeshy.
"Kamesters," or Wool-combers, are always greasy. People are always like their work.
Katie Sweerock, frae where she sat, cried, "Reik me this, and reik me that."
"Applied to lazy people, who ask others to do this or that for them which they ought to do for themselves."- Kelly.