Meanings of canny scotchman in английском

The canny Scotchman and the shrewd Yankee are alike discomfited by the Chinese.

And him a canny Scotchman with a new child a year.

But it is different with me, you canny Scotchman, it is different with me.

But in the next letter we discover designs on a certain very canny Scotchman of Skibo.

Ten other men bought licenses, but William Patterson, a canny Scotchman, said he would chance it.

To which the canny Scotchman replied,-

A canny Scotchman, who abhorred the thought of all musical instruments anywhere, managed to have one fling at the pitch-pipe.

But Elliott, like the canny Scotchman that he was, was determined that he would not be served the same way.

Several men were present, to whom we were at once introduced; amongst others a canny Scotchman, the only Britisher living permanently in the country.