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Brewer's: Coal
Hot as a coal. The expression has an obvious allusion To post the coal or cole To pay or put down the cash. Coal=money has been in use in the sporting world for very many years. Buxton,…Brewer's: Coaling
in theatrical slang, means telling phrases and speeches, as, “My part is full of `coaling lines.' ” Coal being money, means profit, whence coaling. (See p. 265, To Post The Goal ...)…Brewer's: Coals
To blow the coals To fan dissensions, to excite smouldering animosity into open hostility, as dull coals are blown into a blaze by a pair of bellows. To carry coals To be put upon. “…coal
(Encyclopedia) coal, fuel substance of plant origin, largely or almost entirely composed of carbon with varying amounts of mineral matter. Coal is found in beds or seams interstratified with…The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them. So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might…Brewer's: Bovey Coal
A lignite found at Bovey Tracy, in Devonshire. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BowBouts-rimes A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U…Brewer's: Cannel Coal
A corruption of candle coal, so called from the bright flame, unmixed with smoke, which it yields in combustion. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Carry Coals
(See Coals .) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Carry Everything before OneCarry Arms! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…Brewer's: Coals of Fire
To heap coals of fire on the head of a foe. To melt down his animosity by deeds of kindness. “If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink…Brewer's: Wallsend Coals
Originally, from Wallsend, on the Tyne, but now from any part of a large district about Newcastle. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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