(Lord). A superannuated nobleman who affects the gaiety and graces of a young man. (Clandestine Marriage, by Garrick and Colman the Elder.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(3 syl.). A coin placed by the Greeks in the mouth of the dead to pay their passage across the ferry of the Lower World. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
A theatrical amateur in Sheridan's Critic. It was designed for Thomas Vaughan, a playwright. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Daniel LambertDane's Skin A B…
or Shower of gold. A bribe, money. The allusion is to the classic tale of Jupiter and Danae. Acrisios, King of Argos, being told that his daughter's son would put him to death, resolved…
Achilles
Achilles was the strongest and most fearless warrior in the Greek war against the Trojans. As an infant his mother dipped him into the River Styx, which made him invulnerable everywhere…
(noun). Champion of the whistle. The person who can hold out longest in a drinking bout. A Dane, in the train of Anne of Denmark, had an ebony whistle…
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