Ye hae found a mear's nest, and laugh at the eggs.
Ye hae gien the wolf the wedders to keep.
"You have entrusted a thing to one who will lose it, spoil it, or use it himself."—Kelly.
Ye hae got a stipend—get a kirk when ye like.
Ye hae got baith the skaith and the scorn.
Ye hae gotten a ravelled hesp to redd.
That is, you have a very difficult matter to arrange.
"Ance let a hizzy get you in the girn,
Ere ye get loose, ye'll redd a ravell'd pirn."
—Allan Ramsay.
Ye hae gotten the chapman's drouth.