Brewer's: OEdipus

I am no OEdipus. I cannot guess what you mean. OEdipus guessed the riddle of the Sphinx, and saved Thebes from her ravages. (See Sphinx.)

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