by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. Introduction East Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibet Pacific Region FijiHawaii Papua…
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My heart goes pit-a-pat. Throbs, palpitates. “Pat” is a gentle blow (Welsh, ffat), and “pit” is a mere ricochet expletive. We have a vast number of such ricochot words, as “fiddle-faddle…
Armed at all points. “Armé de toutes pièces,” or “Armé jusqu' aux dents.” “Armed at all points exactly cap-à-pie. ” To stand on points. On punctilios; delicacy of behaviour. “This fellow…
A contraction of magotpie, or magata-pie. “Mag” is generally thought to be a contraction of Margaret; thus we have Robin red-breast, Tom-tit, Philip —i.e. a sparrow, etc. “Augurs and…
To acknowledge oneself beaten; to eat umble pie. A maritime expression. When a ship in fight or on meeting another ship, lets down her topsails at least half-mast high, she is said to…
A court held thrice a year before forest verderers by the steward of the court. So called because the swans or swains were the jurymen. (Swans, swans, or sweins, freeholders; Anglo-Saxon,…
i.e. pother (Hibernian). Halliwell gives us blother, which he says means to chatter idly. `Sir,' cries the umpire, `cease your pother, The creature's neither one nor t'other.' Lloyd: The…
Canossa, in the duchy of Modena, is where (in the winter of 1076-7) Kaiser Heinrich IV. went to humble himself before Pope Gregory VII. (Hildebrand). Has the Czar gone to Canossa? Is he…
(A ). A message sent in place of a love-letter. The love-letter would have been a poulet (q.v.). A pigeon pie is called a dove-tart, and dove is symbolical of love. Pyramus says of…
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