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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Itching of the Thumb

according to Shakespeare, betokens the approach of evil.

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something evil this way comes.

Macheth, iv. 1.

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