Home

Flee the Falcon

(To). To let fly the small cannon.

“ `I'll flee the falcon' (so the small cannon was called) `I'll flee the falcon ... my certie, she'll ruffle their feathers for them' ” [ i.e. the insurgents]. —SirW.Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Fleeced
Fledgeby
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Related Content