Speak well of me and I will speak well of thee, whether, we presume, it is deserved or not.
Clawing and eating needs but a beginning.
Clean pith and fair play.
Clear in the south beguiled the cadger.
Cadgers (beggars, or gipsy pedlars), from their out-of-door experience, are allowed to be good judges of coming weather. The proverb means that even the best judges may be occasionally mistaken in their opinions. The one following is of similar import.
Clear in the south drown'd the ploughman.
Clecking time's aye canty time.
Good cheer and mirth in the house when a birth has taken place.
"'Perhaps,' said Mannering, 'at such a time a stranger's arrival might be inconvenient?' 'Hout, na, ye needna be blate about that; their house is muckle enough, and clecking time's aye canty time.'"—Guy Mannering.