BarberEvery barber knows that “Omnibus notum tonsoribus.” Horace: 1 Satires, VII. 3. In Rome the tonstrinæ or barbers' shops were the fashionable resort of loungers and idlers. Here every scandal was known, and all the talk of the town was repeated. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Barber from Infoplease:
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