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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Measure One's Length on the Ground

(To). To fall flat on the ground; to be knocked down.

“If you will measure your lubber's length, tarry.” —Shakespeare: King Lear, i. 4.

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