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Brewer's: Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles
To regard actions in a wrong light; to view things distorted by prejudice. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Lookers-onLook One Way and Row Another A B C D…Brewer's: Looking-glass
It is unlucky to break a looking-glass. The nature of the ill-luck varies; thus, if a maiden, she will never marry; if a married woman, it betokens a death, etc. This superstition arose…Tenniel, Sir John
(Encyclopedia) Tenniel, Sir JohnTenniel, Sir Johntĕnˈyəl [key], 1820–1914, English caricaturist and illustrator. He became well known for his original and good-humored political cartoons in Punch,…The Devil's Dictionary: Looking-glass
by Ambrose Bierce LONGEVITYLOQUACITYLOOKING-GLASS -n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass,…Venus's looking-glass
(Encyclopedia) Venus's looking-glass: see bellflower.Randolph, Thomas, English poet and dramatist
(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Thomas, 1605–35, English poet and dramatist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1632, he went to London where he became a disciple of Ben Jonson. His best-known poems are “A…Taylor, Deems
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Deems (Joseph Deems Taylor), 1885–1966, American composer and music critic, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ., 1906. After other journalistic posts he was music critic (…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…Weems, Mason Locke
(Encyclopedia) Weems, Mason Locke, 1759–1825, American author and preacher, b. Anne Arundel co., Md., studied theology in London. He was ordained in 1784 and served various Episcopal parishes. For 30…William Shakespeare: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestLook in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,…Trending
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