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Jack HartmanAge: 73 former Kansas St. men's basketball coach who won more games than any other coach in school history; won National Coach of the Year Award from basketball coaches after the…Brewer's: Little Jack Horner
(See Jack.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Little JohnLittle-Go 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 Z Related…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…Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
WBMidseason DebutSunday 8:00–8:30 p.m.Cast:Selma Blair, Mary Page Keller, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum and Azura Skye The WB's spin on Friends has four high-school students hanging out in…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.…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…Trending
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