ak a hair o' the dog that bit you.
This is a familiar rendering of the great law of Homœopathy, Similia similibus curantur; but is usually interpreted thus: Sober yourself by taking another glass.
Tak a piece; your teeth's langer than your beard.
Addressed to children who are diffident in accepting a "piece."
Tak a seat on Maggie Shaw's Crocky.
"Maggy Shaw's Crocky is a broad flat stone, near to the brink of a precipice, overhanging the sea-shore, about a mile to the north of Eyemouth. This stone was placed over the remains of an old woman who had hanged herself, and who is said to be frequently seen at night sitting upon it, in the shape of a white sea-mew—sitting lonely on the
"'glitty stane,
Green wi' the dow o' the jauping main.'"
—G. Henderson.
Tak a tune on your ain fiddle; ye'll dance till't afore it's dune.