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head of MPAADied: April 26, 2007 (Washington) Best Known as: Aide to President Lyndon Johnson and head of MPAA Head of the Motion Picture Association of…Jack Adams Award
Awarded to the coach “adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success” and named after the late Detroit Red Wings coach and general manager. Winners selected by NHL Broadcasters…Brewer's: Jack-a-Dandy
A term of endearment for a smart, bright little fellow; a Jemmy Jessamy. Smart she is, and handy, O ! Sweet as sugar-candy, O ! ... `And I'm her Jack-a-dandy, O ! Jack-a-dandy. Slang for…Brewer's: Jack-a-Lantern
(A). A Will-o'-the-wisp, an ignis fatuus. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack-a-napesJack-a-Dandy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Brewer's: Jack-a-napes
or Jackanapes = Jack of apes. An impertinent, vulgar prig. (See Jeannot.) More likely, it is Jack and ape, formed on the model of Jack-ass, a stupid fool. “I will teach a scurvy jackanape…Brewer's: Jack Brag
(See Brag.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack Drum's EntertainmentJack-Amend-All 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…Brewer's: Jack of Dover
A stockfish, “hake salted and dried.” The Latin for a hake is merlucius, and lucius is a jack or pike. Mer, of course, means the sea, and Dover, the chief Clinque Port, is used as a…Brewer's: Jack Horner
For solution see Notes and Queries, xvi. 156; xvii. 83. In Latin alcaics, thus: Sedens Johannes parvus in angulo Hornerus edit crustula Christanica; Et dixit, ut pruna extrahebat Pollice…Brewer's: Jack Ketch
Although this looks very much like a sobriquet, there seems no sufficient evidence to believe it to be otherwise than a real proper name. We are told that the name Jack was applied to…Brewer's: Jack of Newbury
John Winchcomb, the greatest clothier of the world, in the reign of Henry VIII. He kept 100 looms in his own house at Newbury, and equipped at his own expense 100 of his men to aid the…Trending
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