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Brewer's: Man in the Moon
(The). Some say it is a man leaning on a fork, on which he is carrying a bundle of sticks picked up on a Sunday. The origin of this fable is from Num. xv. 32-36. Some add a dog also; thus…Brewer's: Man-Mountain
or Quinbus Flestrin. So Gulliver was called Lilliput. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man ProposesMan ... Monkey A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Brewer's: Man Proposes
but God disposes: So we read in the Imitatio Christi; Herbert (Jacula Prudentum) has nearly the same identical words. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man…Brewer's: Man of Remnants
(A). A tailor. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man of RossMan of Letters 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 Z Related…Brewer's: Man of Ross
John Kyrle, of Ross, in Herefordshire, immortalised by Pope in his epistle On the Use of Riches. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man of SaltMan of Remnants…Brewer's: Man of Salt
A man like Æneas, always “melting into salt tears,” called “drops of salt.” This would make a man a man of salt, To use his eyes for garden waterpots. Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 6.…Brewer's: Man of the Sea
(See Old , etc.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man of the Third RepublicMan of the Hill A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…Brewer's: Man of Sin
(The). (2 Thess. ii. 3). The Roman Catholics say the Man of Sin is Antichrist. The Puritans applied the term to the Pope of Rome; the Fifth-Monarchy men to Cromwell; many modern…Brewer's: Man of Sedan
Napoleon III. was so called, because he surrendered his sword to William, King of Prussia, after the battle of Sedan (September 2, 1870). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Man of Silence
(The). Napoleon III. (1808, 1852-70, died 1873.) “France? You must know better than I you position with the Man of Silence.” —For Sceptre and Crown, chap. i. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Trending
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