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Little-Go

The examination held in the Cambridge University in the second year of residence. Called also “the previous examination,” because it precedes by a year the examination for a degree. In Oxford the corresponding examination is called The Smalls. (See Mods.)

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