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Brewer's: Salad Days
Days of inexperience, when persons are very green. My salad days. When I was green in judgment. Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, i. 5. A pen'orth of salad oil. A strapping; a…Brewer's: Saturnian Days
Days of dulness, when everything is venal. Then rose the seed of Chaos and of Night To blot oat order and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days…Brewer's: Lose the Day
(To). To lose the battle; to be defeated. To win (or gain) the day is to be victorious; to win the battle, the prize, or any competition. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…The Names of the Days of the Week
The mythic roots of some common words There are two basic origins for weekday names. In many languages, like French and Spanish, the days are named for the planets. In Japan, for instance, the days…Brewer's: Ancient of Days
(Daniel iii. 9). Jehovah. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AncileAncient Mariner 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…Brewer's: Banian Days
[Ban-yan ]. Days when no meat is served to a ship's crew. The term is derived from the Banians, a class of Hindu merchants, who carried on a most extensive trade with the interior of Asia…Brewer's: Ascension Day
or Holy Thursday. The day set apart by the Catholic and Anglican Church to commemorate the ascent of our Lord from earth to heaven. Formerly it was customary to beat the bounds of each…Brewer's: Arbor Day
A day set apart in Canada and the United States for planting trees. (See Historic Note Book, p. 42.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Arbor JudæArbaces A B…Brewer's: May-day
Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. The early…Brewer's: Medicinal Days
The sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, eighteenth, etc., of a disease; so called because, according to Hippocrates, no “crisis” occurs on these days, and medicine may be safely…Trending
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