A secret enemy; an enemy concealed from sight. Rhyming slang, “a looking-glass.” “Latet anguis in herba.” Virgil. Eclogue iii. 93. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
(Roland the paladin in love). A romantic epic in three books, by the Count Boiardo of Scandiano, in Italy (1495). There is a burlesque in verse of the same title by Berni of Tuscany (1538…
The left hand; the hand which holds the bow. (This bow rhymes with flow.) To be too much of the bow-hand. To fail in a design; not be sufficiently dexterous. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
Detectives who scoured the country to find criminals, before the introduction of the police force. Bow Street, near Covent Garden, London, is where the principal police-court stands. (This…
in Wandering Island, the enchanted residence of Acrasia, destroyed by Sir Guyon. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.) (“Bower” to rhyme with flower.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…
The same as the “archer god,” meaning Cupid. (“Bower” to rhyme with grower. ) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BoxBowse A B C D E F G H I J K L M…
(row to rhyme with low). The alphabet in a horn-book, which had a cross at the beginning and end. Philosophy is all the go, And science quite the fashion; Our grandams learnt the Chriss-…
is said to have built Thebes by the music of his lute, which was so melodious that the stones danced into walls and houses of their own accord. Tennyson has a rhyming jeu d'esprit.…
Mere jingles or rhymes. Knives had, at one time, a distich inscribed on the blade by means of aqua fortis. Whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a kuife. Shakespeare…
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