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Brewer's: Curse
or Cuss. Not worth a curse. I don't care a curse (or cuss). Here “curse” is a corruption of cerse or kerse. Similarly, the Latin nihil [nihilum ] is ne hilum, not [worth] the black eye of…Brewer's: Customer
A man or acquaintance. A rum customer is one better left alone, as he is likely to show fight if interfered with. A shop term. ( See Card.) “Here be many of her old customers.”…Brewer's: Cymbeline
(See Imogen, Zineura.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CymochlesCyllaros 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 Related…Brewer's: Daguerreotype
(4 syl.). A photographic process. So named from M. Daguerre, who greatly improved it in 1839. (See Talbotype.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DagunDagonet…Brewer's: Damon and Pythias
Inseparable friends. They were two Syracusian youths. Damon, being condemned to death by Dionysius the tyrant, obtained leave to go home to arrange his affairs if Pythias became his…Brewer's: Dan
A title of honour, common with the old poets, as Dan Phoebus, Dan Cupid, Dan Neptune, Dan Chaucer, etc. (Spanish, don.) Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's eternal beadroll…Brewer's: Come On!
A challenge to fight with fists. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Come OutCome Off 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…Brewer's: Comedy
means a village-song (Greek, Kome-ode), referring to the village merry-makings, in which comic songs still take a conspicuous place. The Greeks had certain festal processions of great…Brewer's: Comrade
(2 syl.). The name of Fortunio's fairy horse. It ate but once a week; knew the past, present, and future; and spake with the voice of a man. (Grimm's Goblins: Fortunio.) (See Horse )…Brewer's: Comrades
(2 syl.). Those who sleep in the same bed-chamber. It is a Spanish military term derived from the custom of dividing soldiers into chambers. The proper spelling is camerades, men of the…Trending
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