Brewer's: Traveller's Licence

The long bow; exaggeration.

“If the captain has not taken `traveller's licence,' we have in Norway a most successful development of peasant proprietorship.” —W. Bowerman.

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