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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Barley

To cry barley. To ask for truce (in children's games). Query, a corruption of parley.

“A proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzïe.” —Sir W. Scott: Waverley ,

xiii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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