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Brewer's: Jack-Amend-All
One of the nicknames given to Jack Cade the rebel, who promised to remedy all abuses. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack BragJack-a-napes A B C D E F…Brewer's: Jack and the Bean Stalk
A nursery tale of German invention. The giant is All-Father, whose three treasures are (1) a harp —i.e. the wind; (2) bags full of treasures —i.e. the rain; and (3) the red hen which…Brewer's: Jack Drum's Entertainment
A beating. (See John Drum's , etc.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack HornerJack Brag 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: Jack the Giant-killer
owed much of his success to his four marvellous possessions— an invisible coat, a cap of wisdom, shoes of swiftness, and a resistless sword. When he put on his coat no eye could see him;…Brewer's: Jack o' the Bowl
The most famous brownie or house-spirit of Switzerland; so called from the custom of placing for him every night on the roof of the cow-house a bowl of fresh sweet cream. The contents of…Brewer's: Jack o' the Clock
The figure which comes out to strike the hours on the bell of a clock. A contraction of Jaquemart (q.v.). King Richard. Well, but what's o'clock? Buckingham. Upon the stroke of ten. K. R.…Brewer's: Jack Out of Office
One no longer in office. I am left out; for me nothing remains. But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., I. I. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: House that Jack Built
(The). There are numerous similar glomerations. For example the Hebrew parable of The Two Zuzim. The summation runs thus: 10. This is Yavah who vanquished 9. Death which killed 8. The…Brewer's: Sixteen-string Jack
John Rann, a highwayman, noted for his foppery. He wore sixteen tags, eight at each knee. (Hanged in 1774.) “Dr. Johnson said that Gray's poetry towered above the ordinary run of verse as…Brewer's: Foul-weather Jack
Commodore Byron, said to be as notorious for foul weather as Queen Victoria is for fine. (1723-1786.) Admiral Sir John Norris, who died 1746. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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