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Brewer's: Shop-lifting
is secretly purloining goods from a shop. Dekker speaks of the lifting-law—i.e. the law against theft. (Gothic, hüfan, to steal; hliftus, a thief; Latin, levo, to disburden.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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