I gied his birn a hitch.
Or, assisted him in a strait.
"Though he bans me, I wish him well,
We'll maybe meet again;
I'll gie his birn a hitch, an' help
To ease him o' his pain."
—Poems in the Buchan Dialect.
I had but little butter, an' that I coost on the coals.
Said by a person who has been reduced either in circumstances, or in the possession of a particular article, signifying that even the little that was left had been allowed either by carelessness or accident to slip through his fingers.
I had nae mind that I was married, my bridal was sae feckless.
Meaning that a circumstance was of so little importance that no notice was taken of it.
I hae a gude bow, but it's i' the castle.