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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Tom Tailor

A tailor.

“ `We rend our hearts, and not our garments.” - “ `The better for yourselves, and the worse for Tom Taylor', said the baron.” —Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxv.

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