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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cut of his Jib

The contour or expression of his face. This is a sailor's phrase. The cut of a jib or foresail of a ship indicates her character. Thus, a sailor says of a suspicious vessel, he “does not like the cut of her jib.”

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