326 LIEUT.-COLONEL D. C. PHILLOTT : 



232. " The babe is not suckled till it cries ; " (i.e., you won't get anything till you 

 ask for it). 



233. "Make him see death that he may become content with fever." Cf Throw 

 him into the sea and he'll not afterwards mind sea-sickness. 



234. " He restrains himself after he has broken wind." Cf ' Shut the stable door 

 after the horse is stolen.' 



235. (Expresses insipidity.) 



236. " One hand can't clap." Cf. ' It takes two to make a quarrel.' 



237. ' The only people who don't know are Adam and Eve," or " The only people 

 who don't know are Sa'di and Hafiz." Cf. ' The whole world knows that Queen 

 Anne's dead.' 



238. " Water won't ooze through his closed fist." (Of a miser: close-fisted.) 



239. " He brightens his house." (Said of a temporary revival before death.) 



240. (a) " He doesn't know the difference between an ox and an ass." 

 (b) " He doesn't know hit from pit** 



Cf. ' He kens nae a mavis frae a madge-howlet.' 1 

 ' He kens nae a selgh 2 frae a salmon.' 

 ' He doesn't know a hawk from a hernshawe.' 

 ' He doesna ken a B from a bull's foot.' 



241. " " There's a small bowl under the big one." (There's something behind 

 this.) 



242. "Absence and friendship." Cf. 'Distance lends enchantment,' and 'His 

 absence is good company.' 



243. "His voice is pleasing to his head"; (i.e., he's fond of the sound of his 

 own voice). 



244. " Even a dog is a lion in its own home." Cf. ' Every cock crows crousiest 3 

 on his ain midden head.' 



245. " The spilt ^Ai is an offering to Imam Ja'far-i Sadiq."* (A man spilt his ghi 

 and at once exclaimed, " This was my votive offering to Imam Ja'far.") 



246. " If the scald-headed were a doctor, he would treat his own head.' 

 Cf. ' Physician heal thyself.' 



247. (a) " The day of hope is exceeding long." 

 (b) " Expectation is worse than death." 



(Cf. ' A day to come seems longer than a year that's gone.' 



248. " Hasan from Basra, Bilal from Abyssinia, Suhaib from Syria. 



And Abu Jahl from Mecca — this is strange indeed." 

 Cf ' A black hen may lay a white egg, y and ' An ill cow may hae a gude 

 calf.' 



249. "One should never consider any enemy contemptible." Cf. 'A sma' leak 

 will sink a great ship.' 



l Owl. 2 Selgh " seal." 3 Liveliest. * One of the twelve Imams. 



