Brewer's: Needham

You are on the high-road to Needham—to ruin or poverty. The pun is on the word need. Needham is in Suffolk. (See Land Of Nod.)

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