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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…Brewer's: Man of Straw
(A). A person without capital. It used to be customary for a number of worthless fellows to loiter about our law-courts to become false witness or surety for anyone who would buy their…Brewer's: Man Threefold
According to Diogenes Laertius, the body was composed of (1) a mortal part; (2) a divine and ethereal part, called the phren; and (3) an aërial and vaporous part, called the thumos.…Brewer's: Man of Wax
A model man; like one fashioned in wax. Horace speaks of the “waxen arms of Telephus,” meaning model arms, or of perfect shape and colour; and the nurse says of Romeo, “Why, he's a man of…Brewer's: Man of Whipcord
(A). A coachman. The reference is to his whip. He would not have suffered the coachman to proceed while the horses were unfit for service. ... Yet the man of whipcord escaped some severe…Brewer's: Man of the World
(A). One “knowing” in world-craft; no greenhorn. Charles Macklin brought out a comedy (1704), and Henry Mackenzie a novel (1773) with the same title. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Paul's Man
(A). A braggart; a captain out of service, with a long rapier; so called because St. Paul's Walk was at one time the haunt of stale knights. Jonson called Bobadil (q.v.) a Paul's man.…Brewer's: Nab-man
A sheriff's officer. (See Nab.) “Old Dornton has sent the nabman after him at last.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (dramatised by Terry, ii. 3). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Trending
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