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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Explosion

means literally, driven out by clapping the hands (Latin, explodo —i.e. ex-plaudo); hence the noise made by clapping the hands, a report made by ignited gunpowder, etc.

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