10 Metaphors for scotchmen

387; 'Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy,' v. 346; 'He left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death,' i. 268; 'Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young,' ii. 194; 'One Scotchman is as good as another,' iv.

Nor was Mr. White unprepared to receive him, for he had previously got a commission to examine him and take his deposition: but then an agent likes to know what a witness will say before he cites him; and the canny Scotchman, of all men in the world, is the most uncanny if brought to swear without some hope of being benefited by his oath.

It is that we have quite definitely encouraged a Scotchman to be Scotch.

JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, I see no reason why they should be tried at all; for, you know, one Scotchman is as good as another.' WILKES.

Boswell a second time (ante, ii. 311) returns to Johnson's assertion that 'a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth; he will always love it better than inquiry.' Works, ix.

Every Scotchman is a born theologian.

You Scotchmen are no scholars.

Crabb Robinson's MS. diary tells us that the Scotchman was one Smith, a friend of Godwin.

ON CONWAY'S VERSESNO SCOTCHMAN IS CAPABLE OF SUCH DELICACY OF THOUGHT, THOUGH

Boswell's surprise seems to indicate that Scotchmen in those days were even greater bears than Johnson.

10 Metaphors for  scotchmen