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Brewer's: Circumlocution Office
A term applied in ridicule to our public offices, because each person tries to shuffle off every act to some one else; and before anything is done it has to pass through so many…Brewer's: D.T.
A contraction of delirium tremens. “They get a look, after a touch of D.T., which nothing else that I know of can give them” —Indian Tale. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Orkneys
Either the Teutonic Orkn-cys (the water or islands of the whirlpool), in allusion to the two famous whirlpools near the Isle of Swinna; or else the Norwegian Orkeyjar (northern islands),…Brewer's: Sui Generis
(Latin). Having a distinct character of its own; unlike anything else. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sui JurisSugared Words A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Turcaret
One who has become rich by hook or by crook, and, having nothing else to display, makes a great display of his wealth. A chevalier in Le Sage's comedy of the same name. Source:…Brewer's: Vade Mecum
[a go-with-me ]. A pocket-book, memorandum-book, pocket cyclopaedia, lady's pocket companion, or anything else which contains many things of daily use in a small compass. Source:…Brewer's: Smart Money
Money paid by a person to obtain exemption from some disagreeable office or duty; in law it means a heavy fine; and in recompense it means money given to soldiers or sailors for injuries…Brewer's: Shebeen
A small Irish store for the sale of whisky and something else, as bacon, eggs, general provisions, and groceries. Drinking your health wid Shamus O'Shea at Katty's shebeen. Tennyson: To-…Brewer's: Pensioners
at the Universities and Inns of Court. So called from the French pension (board), pensionnaire (a boarder, one who pays a sum of money to dine and lodge with someone else). Source:…Brewer's: Philemon
and Baucis entertained Jupiter and Mercury when everyone else refused them hospitality. Being asked to make a request, they begged that they might both die at the same time. When they were…Trending
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