Bode for a silk gown and ye'll get a sleeve o't.
That is, if we "bode" or earnestly wish for an article or result, we will get at least something approaching to it. An Aberdeenshire parallel to this is, "They never bodet a house o' gowd, but aye got a caber o't."
Bode gude and get it.
Boden gear stinks.
The theory of the fox and grapes.
Bonnet aside! how sell you your maut?
Bonny birds are aye the warst singers.
Bonny sport, to fare weel and pay nothing for't.
"Diogenes is said to have thought that the best wine which cost him nothing."—Kelly.
Bourdna wi' bawty lest he bite ye.