Brewer's: Itching of the Thumb

according to Shakespeare, betokens the approach of evil.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something evil this way comes.

Macheth, iv. 1.

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