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(Encyclopedia) Liberal party, former British political party, the dominant political party in Great Britain for much of the period from the mid-1800s to World War I.
By 1914 the Liberal government…
Mr. and Mrs. Vulgarity, of Pretension Hall. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hugh Lloyd's PulpitHugger-mugger A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…
(Cornwall). A corruption of “Lazars' Point,” i.e. the place of retirement for lazars or lepers. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lloyd'sLizard Islands A B…
Never turn a loaf in the presence of a Menteith. Sir John Stewart de Menteith was the person who betrayed Sir William Wallace to King Edward. His signal was, when he turned a loaf set on…
An English perversion of “Euperion,” a predecessor of lucifer matches invented by Heurtner, who opened a shop in the Strand, and advertised his invention thus— To save your knuckles time…
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