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Brewer's: Green Bag
What's in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the “Green Bag Inquiry” (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Bird
(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (CountessD'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Cloth
The Board of Green Cloth. A board connected with the royal household, having power to correct offenders within the verge of the palace and two hundred yards beyond the gates. A warrant…Brewer's: Green Dogs
Any extinct race, like that of the Dodo. Brederode said to Count Louis: “I would the whole race of bishops and cardinals was extinct, like that of green dogs.” (Motley Dutch Republic, part…Brewer's: Green Dragoons
(The). The 13th Dragoons (whose regimental facings were green). Now called the 13th Hussars, and the regimental facings have been white since 1861. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Green Glasses
To look through green glasses. To feel jealous of one; to be envious of another's success. “If we had an average of theatrical talent, we had also our quantum of stage jealousies; for who…Brewer's: Green Goose
(A). A young goose not fully grown. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green GownGreen Glasses A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…Brewer's: Green Gown
(A). A tousel in the new-mown hay. To “give one a green gown” sometimes means to go beyond the bounds of innocent playfulness. Had any dared to give her [Narcissa] a green gown, The fair…Brewer's: Green Hands
(a nautical phrase). Inferior sailors, also called boys. A crew is divided into (1) Able seamen; (2) Ordinary seamen; and (3) Green hands or boys. The term “boys” has no reference to age…Brewer's: Green Horse
(The). The 5th Dragoon Guards; so called because they are a horse regiment, and have green for their regimental facings. Now called “The Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards.”…Trending
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