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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Calves' Head

There are many ways of dressing a calf's head. Many ways of saying or doing a foolish thing; a simpleton has many ways of showing his folly; or, generally, if one way won't do we must try another. The allusion is to the great Calves' Head Club banquet, when the board was laden with calves' heads cooked in sundry ways and divers fashions.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Calves' Head Club
Calves gone to Grass
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