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Schlemihl

(Peter). The name of a man who sold his shadow to the devil, in Chamisso's tale so called. It is a synonym for any person who makes a desperate and silly bargain.

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