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Brewer's: Green Bird
(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (CountessD'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Cloth
The Board of Green Cloth. A board connected with the royal household, having power to correct offenders within the verge of the palace and two hundred yards beyond the gates. A warrant…Brewer's: Green Dogs
Any extinct race, like that of the Dodo. Brederode said to Count Louis: “I would the whole race of bishops and cardinals was extinct, like that of green dogs.” (Motley Dutch Republic, part…Brewer's: Green Dragoons
(The). The 13th Dragoons (whose regimental facings were green). Now called the 13th Hussars, and the regimental facings have been white since 1861. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Green Glasses
To look through green glasses. To feel jealous of one; to be envious of another's success. “If we had an average of theatrical talent, we had also our quantum of stage jealousies; for who…Brewer's: Green Goose
(A). A young goose not fully grown. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green GownGreen Glasses A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…Brewer's: Green Gown
(A). A tousel in the new-mown hay. To “give one a green gown” sometimes means to go beyond the bounds of innocent playfulness. Had any dared to give her [Narcissa] a green gown, The fair…Brewer's: Green Hands
(a nautical phrase). Inferior sailors, also called boys. A crew is divided into (1) Able seamen; (2) Ordinary seamen; and (3) Green hands or boys. The term “boys” has no reference to age…Brewer's: Green Horse
(The). The 5th Dragoon Guards; so called because they are a horse regiment, and have green for their regimental facings. Now called “The Princess Charlotte of Wales's Dragoon Guards.”…Brewer's: Green Howards
(The). The 19th Foot, named from the Hon. Charles Howard, colonel from 1738 to 1748. Green was the colour of their regimental facings, now white, and the regiment is called “The Princess…Trending
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