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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bermudas

To live in the Bermudas, i.e. in some out-of-the-way place for cheapness. The shabby genteel hire a knocker in some West-end square, where letters may be left for them, but live in the Bermudas, or narrow passages north of the Strand, near Covent Garden.

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