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Brewer's: Petruchio
A gentleman of Verona who undertakes to tame the haughty Katharine, called the Shrew. He marries her, and without the least personal chastisement brings her to lamb-like submission. (…Brewer's: Miggs
(Miss). Mrs. Varden's maid, and the impersonation of an old shrew. (Dickens: Barnaby Rudge.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MignonMidwife A B C D E F…Brewer's: Crush
To crush a bottle —i.e. drink one. Cf. Milton's crush the sweet poison. The idea is that of crushing the grapes. Shakespeare has also burst a bottle in the same sense (Induction of Taming…Brewer's: Cully
A fop, a fool, a dupe. A contracted form of cullion, a despicable creature (Italian, coglione). Shakespeare uses the word two or three times, as “Away, base cullions!” (2 Henry VI., i. 3…Brewer's: Curst
Curst cows have curt horns. Angry men cannot do all the mischief they wish. Curst means “angry” or “fierce,” and curt is “short,” as curtmantle, curt-hose. The Latin proverb is, “Dat Deus…Brewer's: Bianca
Wife of Fazio. When Fazio became rich, and got entangled with the Marchioness Aldabella, she accused him to the Duke of Florence of being privy to the death of Bartoldo, an old miser.…Brewer's: Goosebridge
Go to Goosebridge. “Rule a wife and have a wife.” Bocaccio (ix. 9) tells us that a man who had married a shrew asked Solomon what he should do to make her more submissive; and the wise…Brewer's: Dumps
To be in the dumps. Out of spirits; in the “sullens.” According to etymological fable, it is derived from Dumops, King of Egypt, who built a pyramid and died of melancholy. Gay's Third…Brewer's: Gramercy
Thank you much (the French grand merci). Thus Shakespeare, “Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too” (Titus Andronicus, i. 2). Again, “Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise” (Taming of the…Brewer's: Grizel
or Grissel. Octavia, wife of Marc Antony and sister of Augustus Caesar, is called the “patient Grizel” of Roman story. (See Grisilda.) “For patience she will prove a second Grissel.”…Trending
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