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History of Chopsticks
How did the Asian food utensils originate? Some believe Confucius championed chopsticks over knives, which would remind people of slaughterhouses. Related Links Asian Foods Primer…Brewer's: Potiphar's Wife
According to the Koran her name was Zuleika, but some Arabian writers call her Rail. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PotsPothooks A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Hot Water
(In.) In a state of trouble, or of anxiety. The reference is to the ordeal by hot water (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hotch-potHot-foot A B C D…Brewer's: Hotch-potch
A confused mixture or jumble; a thick broth containing meat and vegetables. A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes. Thackeray: Ballad of Bouillabaisse,…Brewer's: Flesh and Blood
Human nature, as “Flesh and blood cannot stand it.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Flesh-potsFlemish School A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Potage
(Jean). The Jack Pudding of the French stage; very like the German “Hanswurst,” the Dutch “Pickel herringe,” and the Italian “Macaroni.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Rainbow Chasers
Problematical politicians and reformers, who chase rainbows, which cannot possibly be caught, to “find the pot of gold at the foot thereof.” This alludes to an old joke, that a pot of gold…Brewer's: Inkhorn Terms
This phrase, once common, might be revived to signifiy pedantic expressions which smell of the lamp. Shakespeare uses the phrase, an “Inkhorn mate” (1 Henry VI., iii. 1). Source:…Brewer's: Gallipot
(g hard) means a glazed pot, as galletyles (3 syl.) means glazed tiles. (Dutch, gleipot, glazed pot.) In farce and jest it forms a by-name for an apothecary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Six Articles
(33 Henry VIII.) enjoins the belief in (1) the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; (2) the sufficiency of communion in one kind; (3) the celibacy of the priests, (4) the obligation…Trending
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