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Brewer's: Monkey's Money
I will pay you in monkey's money (“en monnaic de singe”)—in goods, in personal work, in mumbling and grimace. The French had a law that when a monkey passed the Petit Pont, of Paris, if it…Brewer's: Press-money
and Press-men do not mean money given to impress men into the service and men so impressed; but ready money, and men ready for service. When a recruit has received the money, he binds…Brewer's: Sterling Money
Spelmab derives the word from esterlings, merchants of the Hanse Towns, who came over and reformed our coin in the reign of John. Others say it is starling (little star), in allusion to a…Brewer's: Glove Money
A bribe, a perquisite; so called from the ancient custom of presenting a pair of gloves to a person who undertook a cause for you. Mrs. Croaker presented Sir Thomas More, the Lord…Brewer's: Pin Money
A lady's allowance of money for her own personal expenditure. Long after the invention of pins, in the fourteenth century, the maker was allowed to sell them in open shop only on January…Entertainment News from May 1997
Eddie MurphyArchive Photos1News Corp.'s Preston Padden resigns. Padden orchestrated the $1-billion direct-broadcast satellite merger between News Corp. and EchoStar that is beginning to show…vaudeville
(Encyclopedia) vaudevillevaudevillevôdˈvĭl [key], originally a light song, derived from the drinking and love songs formerly attributed to Olivier Basselin and called Vau, or Vaux, de Vire. Similar…Brewer's: Young Chevalier
Charles Edward Stuart, the second Pretender. (1720-1788.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Young EnglandYorkshire A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Brewer's: Young Germany
A literary school headed by Heinrich Heine, whose aim was to liberate politics, religion, and manners from the old conventional trammels. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Young Italy
A league of Italian refugees, who associated themselves with the French republican party, called the Charbonnerie Démocratique (q.v.). It was organised at Marseilles by Mazzini, and its…Trending
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