Red Cock

The red cock will crow in his house. His house will be set on fire.

“‘Weʹll see if the red cock craw not in his bonnie barn-yard ae morning.ʹ ‘What does she mean?ʹ said Mannering… . ‘Fire-raising,ʹ answered the … dominie.”—Sir Walter Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. iii.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.