TO COOK THE PORRIDGE, verb. phr. (Scots’).—To contrive and execute a design.
1814. SCOTT, Waverley, iii. 354. ‘But wha COOKIT THE PARRIDGE for him?’ exclaimed the Bailie, ‘I wad like to ken that:—wha, but your honour’s to command.’
See BREATH.
TO COOK THE PORRIDGE, verb. phr. (Scots’).—To contrive and execute a design.
1814. SCOTT, Waverley, iii. 354. ‘But wha COOKIT THE PARRIDGE for him?’ exclaimed the Bailie, ‘I wad like to ken that:—wha, but your honour’s to command.’
See BREATH.
