| 单词 | to ken one's own groats in other folks' kail |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ken one's own groats in other folks' kail b. Phr. (Scottish) to ken one's own groats in other folks' kail: to know one's own handiwork. to give groats for pease, to gie (one) kail o' his ain groats: to pay (a person) in his own coin. ΚΠ 1727 P. Walker Remarkable Passages 64 The Church excommunicated him, and he gave them Groats for Pease, he excommunicated them. 1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick I. v. 76 He tell't..how keen ye war tae gie the warlocks kail o' their ain groats. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 93 D'ye think, Sir, I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail? < as lemmas |
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