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Bribery scandal tarnishes Olympic gold by Gerry Brown President Juan Antonio Samaranch. Related Links Olympics OverviewOlympic ReformsOlympics Through the YearsIt's been called "the ugliest…Brewer's: Gyges' Ring
rendered the wearer invisible. Gyges, the Lydian, is the person to whom Candaules showed his wife naked. According to Plato, Gyges descended into a chasm of the earth, where he found a…Brewer's: Aladdin's Ring
given him by the African magician, was a “preservative against every evil.” —Arabian Nights: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Bull-ring
(See Mayor Of the Bullring.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bull's EyeBull-necked 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…Brewer's: Cambalo's Ring
Given him by his sister Canacë. It had the virtue of healing wounds. (See Cambel .) (Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. iv.) Well mote ye wonder how that noble knight, After he had so often…Brewer's: Cramp-ring
To scour the crampring. To be put into fetters; to be imprisoned. The allusion is obvious. “There's no muckle hazard o' scouring the cramp-ring.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xxiii…Brewer's: Doom-rings
or Circles of Judgment. An Icelandic term for circles of stones resembling Stonehenge and Avebury. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doomsday SedgwickDoom…Brewer's: Magic Rings
This superstition arose from the belief that magicians had the power of imprisoning demons in rings. The power was supposed to prevail in Asia, and subsequently in Salamanca, Toledo, and…Brewer's: Salt Ring
An attempt to monopolise the sale of salt by a ring or company which bought up some of the largest of our salt-mines. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Salt…Brewer's: Ring Down
Conclude, end at once. A theatrical phrase, alluding to the custom of ringing a bell to give notice for the fall of the curtain. Charles Dickens says, “It is time to ring down on these…Trending
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