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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cotswold Barley

You are as long a-coming as Cotswold barley. Cotswold, in Gloucestershire, is a very cold, bleak place on the wolds, exposed to the winds, and very backward in vegetation, but yet it yields a good late supply of barley.

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