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Brewer's: Birchin Lane
I must send you to Birchin Lane, i.e. whip you. The play is on birch (a rod). A suit in Birchin Lane. Birchin Lane was once famous for all sorts of apparel; references to second-hand…Brewer's: Gutter Lane
(London). A corruption of Guthurun Lane, from a Mr. Guthurun, Goderoune, or Guthrum, who, as Stow informs us, “possessed the chief property therein.” (See Guthrum.) All goes down Gutter…Brewer's: Hedge Lane
(London) includes that whole line of streets (Dorset, Whitcomb, Prince's, and Wardour) stretching from Pall Mall East to Oxford Street. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Ivy Lane
(London). So called from the houses of the prebendaries of St. Paul, overgrown with ivy, which once stood there. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894IxionIvy…Brewer's: Lewkner's Lane
Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement. The flymphs of chaste Diana's train, The same with those of Lewkner's Lane. Butler: Hudibras, part…The Dimensions of the Bowling Lane
The Question: On your Standard Measurements in Sports page you left out the lane width of the bowling lane. Can you tell me what it is? The…Brewer's: Drury Lane
(London) takes its name from the habitation of the great Drury family. Sir William Drury, K.G., was a most able commander in the Irish wars. Drury House stood on the site of the present…Brewer's: Duck Lane
A row for old and second-hand books which stood formerly near Smithfield, but has given way to city improvements. It might be called the Holywell Street of Queen Anne's reign. Scotists and…Brewer's: Dirty Lane
Now called Abingdon Street, Westminster. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dirty ShirtsDirty Half-Hundred A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Brewer's: Rood Lane
(London). So called from a rood or “Jesus on the Cross” placed there, and in Roman Catholic times held in great veneration. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Trending
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