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Event Other Featherweight (-1321/4 lb) Franz Andrysek, AUT 287.5 Pierino Gabetti, ITA 282.5 Hans Wölpert, GER 282.5 Lightweight (-1483/4 lb) Kurt Helbig,…1932 Olympics Men's Weightlifting Medalists
Event Other Featherweight (-1321/4 lb) Raymond Suvigny, FRA 287.5 Hans Wölpert, GER 282.5 Anthony Terlazzo, USA 280.0 Lightweight (-1483/4 lb) Réne Duverger…Brewer's: Above your hook
i.e., beyond your comprehension; beyond your mark. The allusion is to hat-pegs placed in rows; the higher rows are above the reach of small statures. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Kick the Bucket
(To). A bucket is a pulley, and in Norfolk a beam. When pigs are killed, they are hung by their hind-legs on a bucket or beam, with their heads downwards, and oxen are hauled up by a…Brewer's: Kickshaws
Made dishes, odds and ends, formerly written “kickshose.” (French, quelque chose.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Kicksy-wicksyKick Up a Row A B C D E…Brewer's: Cripplegate
St. Giles is the patron saint of cripples and beggars, and was himself a cripple. Churches dedicated to this saint are, therefore, in the suburbs of large towns, as St. Giles of London,…Brewer's: Pater Patrum
St. Gregory of Nyssa was so entitled by the Nicaean Council. (332-395.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Paternoster RowPater Noster A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Pathfinder
Major-General John Charles Fremont, who conducted four expeditions across the Rocky Mountains. (1842). Pathfinder, in Fenimore Cooper's five novels, is Natty Bumppo, called the Pathfinder…Brewer's: Rotundity of the Belt
(Washington Irving). Obesity; a large projecting paunch; what Shakespeare calls a “fair round belly with good capon lined.” (As You Like It, ii. 7.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Trending
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