Brewer's: Candide

(2 syl.). The hero of Voltaire's novel so called. All sorts of misfortunes are heaped upon him, and he bears them all with cynical indifference.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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