Brewer's: Fighting-cocks

To live like fighting-cocks. To have a profusion of the best food. Fighting-cocks used to be high fed in order to aggravate their pugnacity and increase their powers of endurance.

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