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Humble Cow
(A) A cow without horns.
“`That,' said John with a broad grin, was Grizzel chasing the humble
cow out of the close.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. ix.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Humble Cow from Infoplease:
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