Cake ... Dough
I wish my cake were dough again. I wish I had never married.
Bellenden Ker says the proverb is a corruption of Ei w'hissche my
keke was d'how en geen, which he says is tantamount to “Something
whispers within me- repentance, would that my marriage were set
aside.”
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