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Brewer's: Englishman's Castle
His house is so called, because so long as a man shuts himself up in his own house, no bailiff can break through the door to arrest him or seize his goods. It is not so in Scotland.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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