—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.