In all my born days. Ever since I was born. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Born in the PurpleBorn A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T…
Tithe day. (Portuguese, dizimas, tithes; Law Latin, decimæ.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dyvour A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…
At the End of the DayRichard HoveyThere is no escape by the river,
There is no flight left by the fen;
We are compassed about by the shiver
Of the night of their marching men.
Give a cheer!…
(A). (“Nulla dies sine linea.”) Apelles the artist said he never passed a day without doing at least one line, and to this steady industry he owed his great success. Source: Dictionary…
(To). To lose the battle; to be defeated. To win (or gain) the day is to be victorious; to win the battle, the prize, or any competition. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
A day set apart in Canada and the United States for planting trees. (See Historic Note Book, p. 42.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Arbor JudæArbaces A B…
[Ban-yan ]. Days when no meat is served to a ship's crew. The term is derived from the Banians, a class of Hindu merchants, who carried on a most extensive trade with the interior of Asia…
(A). Evil times. Lay by something for a rainy day. Save something against evil times. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Raise the WindRaining Tree A B C D…
The day after Twelfthday, when, the Christmas holidays being over, women returned to their rock or distaff. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RococoRock…
The sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, eighteenth, etc., of a disease; so called because, according to Hippocrates, no “crisis” occurs on these days, and medicine may be safely…
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