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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mule

Mahomet's favourite white mule was Daldah. (See Fadda .)

To shoe one's mule.
To appropriate part of the money committed to one's trust. This is a French locution-

“Ferrer la mule- i.e. I'action d'un domestique qui trompe son maitre sur le prix réel des choses qu'il a achetées en son $$$. Elle doit son origine an pretexte, facile a employer, de la depense faite pour ferrer la mule. ” —Encyclopedic des Proverbes Franais.

“He had the keeping and disposall of the moneys, and yet shod not his own mule.” —History of Francion (1655).

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