Brewer's: Suckle

To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. Iago says women are of no use but to nurse children and keep the accounts of the household. (Shakespeare: Othello, ii. 1.)

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