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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

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(2 syl.). Empty bottles or drawers in a druggist's shop; wooden heads in a hairdresser's shop; lay figures in a tailor's shop; persons on the stage who appear before the lights, but have nothing to say. These all are dumb, actually or figuratively.

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