A choleric old gentleman fond of contradiction, generally ending with the words “or I'll eat my head.” He is the friend of Brownlow. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
This comedy owes its existence to an incident which actually occurred to its author. When Goldsmith was sixteen years of age, a wag residing at Ardagh directed him, when passing through…
(Bill). A ruffian housebreaker of the lowest grade in Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SikhSigurd A B C D E F G H I…
A beadle. So called from the officious, overbearing beadle in Dicken's Oliver Twist. Bumbledom The dominion of an overbearing parish officer, the arrogance of parish authorities, the…
Oliver Cromwell; also called “Ruby Nose,” “Nosey,” and “Nose Almighty,” no doubt from some scorbutic tendency which showed itself in a big red nose. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
Sappho IIOh Litis, little slave, why will you sleep?
These long Egyptian noons bend down your head
Bowed like the yarrow with a yellow bee.
There, lift your eyes no man has ever kindled,
Dark…
As good a Protestant as Oliver Cromwell's horse. This expression arises in a comparison made by Cromwell respecting some person who had less discernment than his horse in the moot points…
An infamous Jew, who teaches boys and girls to rob with dexterity. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FagotFagged Out A B C D E F…
The name of Oliver Goldsmith's poor unfortunate pony, on which he made his country excursions. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FiddlerFiddle-faddle A B C…
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