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Left-Handed Presidents
The Question: I know President Clinton was left-handed, but what other presidents were left-handed? The Answer: Believe it or not, President Bill Clinton was this country's third consecutive …Brewer's: Left-handed Compliment
(A). A compliment which insinuates a reproach. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Left-handed MarriageLeft A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Brewer's: Left-handed Marriage
A morganatic marriage (q.v.). In these marriages the husband gives his left hand to the bride, instead of the right, when he says, “I take thee for my wedded wife.” George William, Duke of…Brewer's: Left-handed Oath
(A). An oath not intended to be binding. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Left in the LurchLeft-handed Marriage A B C D E F G H I J K…plagues of Egypt
(Encyclopedia) plagues of Egypt, in the Bible, the plagues and other troubles brought on Egypt by God through the hands of Moses, because Pharaoh would not let the people of Israel go out of Egypt.…Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
(Encyclopedia) Le Guin, Ursula KroeberLe Guin, Ursula Kroeberkrōˈbər lə gwĭnˈ [key], 1929–2018, American writer, b. Berkeley, Calif.; daughter of anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber. Possessing a…handedness
(Encyclopedia) handedness, habitual or more skillful use of one hand as opposed to the other. Approximately 90% of humans are thought to be right-handed. It was traditionally argued that there is a…Dark Days
Dark DaysBeth did have the fever, and was much sicker than anyone but Hannah and the doctor suspected. The girls knew nothing about illness, and Mr. Laurence was not allowed to see her, so…Brewer's: Left
unlucky, Right lucky. The augur among the Romans having taken his stand on the Capitoline Hill, and marked out with his wand the space of the heavens to be the field of observation,…left
(Encyclopedia) left, in politics, the more radically progressive wing in any legislative body or party. The designation apparently originated in the French National Assembly of 1789, where the…Trending
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