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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Itch

My fingers itch to be at him. This is a French locution, “Les poings me démangent de le battre.”

An itch for gold.
A longing desire. (Anglo-Saxon, giccan, to itch.)

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