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Brewer's: Cock of the North
The Duke of Gordon. So called on a monument erected to his honour at Fochabers, in Aberdeenshire. (Died 1836.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cock of the…Brewer's: Cock up your Head
[foot, etc.]. Lift up, turn up your head or foot. The allusion is to cocking hay, i.e. lifting it into small heaps or into the haycart. (See Cock Of Hay) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth
“Noli dentes equi inspicere donati. ” Do not examine a gift too critically. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Look One Way and Row AnotherLook for a Needle in…Brewer's: Sing Out
To cry or squall from chastisement. To sing small. To cease boasting and assume a lower tone. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sing-su-haySing Old Rose A B…Brewer's: Singapores
(3 syl.), in Stock-Exchange phraseology, means, “British Indian Extension Telegraph Stock.” (See Stock-Exchange Slang.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Limb
To tear limb from Warburton. Lymm cum Warburton forms one rectory in Cheshire. The play is on limb and Lymm. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Limb of the…Brewer's: Hayston
(Frank). The laird of Bucklaw, afterwards laird of Girnington. (SirWalterScott: Bride of Lammermoor.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894HaywardHay, Hagh A B…Brewer's: Hayward
A keeper of the cattle or common herd of a village or parish. The word hay means “hedge,” and this herdsman was so called because he had “ward” of the “hedges” also. (Anglo-Saxon, heg, hay…What to Read While You're Waiting for the Next Harry Potter:
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France: an OdeYouth and AgeDejection: an Ode 55, 1 of motto-*yestreen*. Abbreviation of "yester-even," yesterday evening. 58, 82-*But now afflictions*, etc. In March 1801 Coleridge…Trending
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