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| English | Scottish Gaelic |
| an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth | sùil airson sùla is fiacaill airson fiacla (Yerkwantai) |
| as blind as a bat | cho dall ri dallaig (Yerkwantai) |
| happy as a clam | sona ri bròg (literally "as happy as a shoe" Yerkwantai) |
| happy as a lark | sona ri bròg (Yerkwantai) |
| once in a blue moon | uair san ràith (Yerkwantai) |
| Rome wasn't built in a day | chan ann leis a' chiad bhuille a thuiteas a' chraobh (literally "it is not with the first strike that the tree will fall" Yerkwantai) |
| snug as a bug in a rug | cho seasgair ri luchag ann an cruach (Yerkwantai) |