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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Men in Buckram

Hypothetical men existing only in the brain of the imaginer. The allusion is to the vaunting tale of Falstaff to Prince Henry. (Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.)

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