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Brewer's: Jolly Green
Very simple; easily imposed upon, from being without worldly wisdom. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jolly RogerJolly Good Fellow A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Kendal Green
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…Brewer's: Verdant Green
An excessivley `green' or unsophisticated young man. The character was epitomized in The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1853) by `Cuthbert Bede, BA' (Rev Edward Bradley). Verdant's…Brewer's: Green as Grass
Applied to those easily gulled, and quite unacquainted with the ways of the world. “Verdant Greens.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Green Bag InquiryGreen…Brewer's: Green Bag
What's in the green bag? What charge is about to be preferred against me? The allusion is to the “Green Bag Inquiry” (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Bird
(The) told everything a person wished to know, and talked like an oracle. (CountessD'Aulnoy: Fair Star and Prince Chery.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Green Cloth
The Board of Green Cloth. A board connected with the royal household, having power to correct offenders within the verge of the palace and two hundred yards beyond the gates. A warrant…Brewer's: Green Dogs
Any extinct race, like that of the Dodo. Brederode said to Count Louis: “I would the whole race of bishops and cardinals was extinct, like that of green dogs.” (Motley Dutch Republic, part…Brewer's: Green Dragoons
(The). The 13th Dragoons (whose regimental facings were green). Now called the 13th Hussars, and the regimental facings have been white since 1861. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Green Glasses
To look through green glasses. To feel jealous of one; to be envious of another's success. “If we had an average of theatrical talent, we had also our quantum of stage jealousies; for who…Trending
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