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Bowls
They who play bowls must expect to meet with rubbers. Those who
touch pitch must expect to defile their fingers. Those who enter upon
affairs of chance, adventure, or dangerous hazard must make up their
minds to encounter crosses, losses, or difficulties. Those who play
with edged instruments must expect to get cut. Soldiers in battle must
look out for wounds, gamblers for losses, libertines for diseases.
“Bowls” to rhyme with rolls.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bowls from Infoplease:
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