Brewer's: Dalkey

(King of). A kind of “Mayor of Garrat” (q.v.) at Kingstown, in Ireland. A full description is given of this mock mayor, etc., in a book entitled Ireland Ninety Years Ago.

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