Brewer's: Shrovetide Cocks

Shrove Tuesday used to be the great “Derby Day” of cock-fighting in England.

“Or martyr beat, like Shrovetide cocks, with bats.”

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