or Quinbus Flestrin. So Gulliver was called Lilliput. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man ProposesMan ... Monkey A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…
but God disposes: So we read in the Imitatio Christi; Herbert (Jacula Prudentum) has nearly the same identical words. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man…
John Kyrle, of Ross, in Herefordshire, immortalised by Pope in his epistle On the Use of Riches. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Man of SaltMan of Remnants…
Napoleon III. was so called, because he surrendered his sword to William, King of Prussia, after the battle of Sedan (September 2, 1870). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(A). A person without capital. It used to be customary for a number of worthless fellows to loiter about our law-courts to become false witness or surety for anyone who would buy their…
(A). One “knowing” in world-craft; no greenhorn. Charles Macklin brought out a comedy (1704), and Henry Mackenzie a novel (1773) with the same title. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
by Ambrose Bierce MAMMONMANESMAN -n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is…
(A). A coachman. The reference is to his whip. He would not have suffered the coachman to proceed while the horses were unfit for service. ... Yet the man of whipcord escaped some severe…
(The). So Nicholas of Russia (in 1844) called the Ottoman Empire, which had been declining ever since 1586. “I repeat to you that the sick man is dying; and we must never allow such an…
(The), in theatrical parlance, means an actor who plays foil to the hero, such as the king in Hamlet, the mere foil to the prince; Iago is another “heavy man's” part as foil to Othello;…
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