The French courir, to hunt after, to seek, as courir une charge, courir un bénéfice, to sue for a living; courir les tables, to go a spunging. Similarly, courir les faveurs, to sue for,…
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Curses fall on the head of the curser, as chickens which stray during the day return to their roost at night. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
(Latin, clericus de cursu). Formerly a clerk of the course; a chancery clerk, who made out original writs for the beat, course, or part of the county allotted him. A Newgate solicitor was…
(A). A funeral banquet. “Death-meals, as they were termed, were spread in honour of the deceased.” —Sir W. Scott: The Betrothed, chap.7. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(To). To be in a very precarious position. The allusion is to the sword of Damocles. (See Damocles Sword.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hang in the Bell…
A small curl gummed to the temples, sometimes called a beau or bow catcher. When men indulge in a curl in front of their ears, the love-lock is called a bell-rope- i.e. a rope to pull the…
The Times defines a Low Churchman as one “who loves a Jew and hates the Pope.” We now call a Calvinistic episcopalian one of the Low Church because he holds “church rituals” and the dogma…
Alas′nam Alasnam's lady.In the Arabian Nights' Tales Alasnam has eight diamond statues, but had to go in quest of a ninth more precious still, to fill the vacant pedestal. The prize was…
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