Brewer's: Inkhorn Terms

This phrase, once common, might be revived to signifiy pedantic expressions which smell of the lamp.

Shakespeare uses the phrase, an “Inkhorn mate” (1 Henry VI., iii. 1).

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