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Brewer's: Roughs

(The). The coarse, ill-behaved rabble, without any of the polish of good breeding. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RouncivalRough and Ready A B C D E F…

Rough Magic

Director: Clare PeploeWriters: Robert Mundy, William Brookfield and Clare PeploeDirector of Photography:John J. CampbellEditor:Suzanne FennMusic:Richard HartleyProduction Designer:Waldemar…

Brewer's: Rough-hewn

Shaped in the rough, not finished, unpolished, ill-mannered, raw; as a “rough-hewn seaman” (Bacon); a “rough-hewn discourse” (Howel). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…

Brewer's: Rough Music

called in Somersetshire skimmity-riding, and by the Basques toberac. A ceremony which takes place after sunset, when the performers, to show their indignation against some man or woman who…

Brewer's: Rough and Ready

So General Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the United States, was called. (1786-1853.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RoughsRough and Ready A B C D…

Brewer's: Rough-shod

Riding rough-shod over one. Treating one without the least consideration. The allusion is to riding a horse rough-shod. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Things Get Rough in Kashmir

50 years later the struggle continues by Ben Snowden This article was posted in June, 1998. "If we want to save not only South Asia from nuclear war, but the world as a whole,…

Brewer's: Cut up Rough

(To). To be disagreeable or quarrelsome about anything. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CuthbertCut Short A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

hockey, ice

(Encyclopedia) hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal. The NHL long regarded itself as the world's elite, but the overwhelming…