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111the Auld Kirk — (archaic) 1. The Church of Scotland 2. Whisky • • • Main Entry: ↑auld the Auld Kirk see under ↑auld • • • Main Entry: ↑kirk …
112James Auld — may refer to: * James Alexander Charles Auld (b. 1921), a politician and cabinet minister in Ontario, Canada * James Muir Auld (1879 1942), an Australian artist …
113The Auld Triangle — is a song written by Brendan Behan, which is featured in his play The Quare Fellow . It is used to introduce the play, a story about the occurrences in a prison (in real life Mountjoy Prison where Behan had once been lodged) the day a convict is… …
114the auld kirk — Scottish whisky The ecclesiastical derivation is unclear, except perhaps for those of us who have sat through a sermon in an unheated Scottish church in winter: Whisky for me a dram o guid Auld Kirk. (Coghill, 1890) …
115GRAY, AULD ROBIN — the title of a ballad by Lady Anne Lindsay, from the name of its hero, a good old man who married a young girl whose lover is thought to be dead, but who turns up to claim her a month after …
116soft auld day, it's a — Everyday English Slang in Ireland phr usually said by old people when referring to a typically Irish day, i.e. a soft rain falling …
117bertie-auld — Scottish Vernacular Dictionary rhyming slang for cold/cauld …
118Reekie, Auld (Scot.) — Old Smoky ; nickname for Edinburgh …
119rainin' auld wives and pipe staples — heavy rain …
120The auld mune in the airms o' the new — the disk of the full moon faintly illuminated within the crescent moon and believed to be a sign of an approaching storm …