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• Up the Spout - Up the Spout In pawn. (See Spout.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 ...
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• Woodbine - Woodbine The honeysuckle or beewort; or perhaps the convolvulus. Where the bee Strays diligent, and ...
• Uncle - Uncle Gone to my uncle's. Uncle's is a pun on the Latin word uncus, a hook. Pawnbrokers ...
• Spout - Spout Up the spout. At the pawn-broker's. In allusion to the “spout” up which ...