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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Clipping Pace

(A). Very fast. A clipper is a fast-sailing vessel.

“Leaving Bolus Head, we scudded on at a clipping pace, and the skiff yielded so much to the breeze that Bury said we must reef the mainsail.” —W. S. Trench: Realities of Irish Life, chap. x

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