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(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…
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(Encyclopedia) Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950–, American scholar and critic, b. Keyser, W.Va., B.A. Yale, 1973, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1979, where he studied with Wole Soyinka. Gates is an expert on African…
(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;…
(The) Charles I. was so called by the Parliamentarians, meaning that he would be the last king of Great Britain. His son, Charles II., was called The Son of the Last Man. Last Man A…
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