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Brewer's: Dog-vane
(A). A cockade. “Dog-vane is a term familiarly applied to a cockade.” —Smyth: Sailors' Word-book. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog-watchDog-star A B C…Brewer's: Dog-watch
A corruption of dodgewatch: two short watches, one from four to six, and the other from six to eight in the evening, introduced to dodge the routine, or prevent the same men always…Brewer's: Dog-whipper
(A). A beadle who whips all dogs from the precincts of a church. At one time there was a church officer so called. Even so recently as 1856. Mr. John Pickard was appointed “dog-whipper”…Brewer's: Dogs'-meat
Food unfit for consumption by human beings. Dogs'-meat and cats'-meat. Food cheap and nasty. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dog's-noseDogs A B C D E…Brewer's: Dog's-nose
Gin and beer. `Dog's-nose, which is, I believe, a mixture of gin and beer.' `So it is,' said an old lady. —Pickwick Papers. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Blenheim Dog
A small spaniel; so called from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, where the breed has been preserved ever since the palace was built. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Cat and Dog
To live a cat and dog life. To be always snarling and quarrelling, as a cat and dog, whose aversion to each other is intense. “There will be jealousies, and a cat-and-dog life over yonder…Brewer's: Lovel, the Dog
(See Rat, Cat, etc.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LovelaceLove's Labour's Lost A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…Brewer's: Hungry Dogs
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. “To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.” (Prov. xxvii. 7.) “When bread is wanting oaten cakes are excellent.” Latin: “Jejunus raro stomachus…Brewer's: Dumb Dog
(A). One who remains silent when he ought to speak. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dumb Ox of CologneDumb Crambo A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Trending
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