Brewer's: Dinah

(Aunt), in Sterne's Tristram Shandy. She leaves Mr. Walter Shandy £1,000, which he fancies will enable him to carry out all the wild schemes that enter into his head.

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