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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Beetle-crusher

A large, flat foot. The expression was first used in Punch, in one of Leech's caricatures. Those who know London know how it is overrun with cockroaches, wrongly called black-beetles.

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