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Tom Lantos Biography

congressmanDied: February 11, 2008 (Bethesda, Maryland) Best Known as: the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress Tom Lantos was a long time…

Tom Poston Biography

actorDied: April 30, 2007 (Los Angeles, California) Best Known as: actor in Steve Allen's "man on the street" Emmy-winning actor who specialized in playing…

Brewer's: Black Tom

The Earl of Ormonde, Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth; so called from his ungracious ways and “black looks.” “He being very stately in apparel, and erect in port, despite…

Brewer's: Old Tom

Cordial gin. Thomas Norris, one of the men employed in Messrs. Hodges' distillery, opened a gin palace in Great Russell Street, Covenant Garden, and called the gin concocted by Thomas…

Brewer's: Tib and Tom

Tib is the ace of trumps, and Tom is the knave of trumps in the game of Gleek. “That gamester needs must overcome, That can play both Tib and Tom.” Randolph: Hermuphrodite, p. 640.…

Brewer's: Tom Folio

Thomas Rawlinson, the bootlegbooksc. (1681-1725.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom Fool's ColoursTom A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…

Brewer's: Tom Foolery

The coarse, witless jokes of a Tom Fool. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom LongTom Fool's Colours A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…

Brewer's: Tom and Jerry

i.e. Corinthian Tom and Jerry Hawthorn, the two chief characters in Pierce Egan's Life in London, illustrated by Cruikshank. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Tom Long

Waiting for Tom Long- i.e. a wearisome long time. The pun, of course, is on the word long. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom RawTom Foolery A B C D E…

Brewer's: Tom Raw

The griffin; applied at one time to a subaltern in India for a year and a day after his joining the army. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom TailorTom Long…