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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many...

about Ireland and its sayings, myths, legends and fables. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics v t e v t e...

software for machine translation. Examples of the genre include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, which explains traditional allusions and proverbs...

have the glacé cherry. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Brewer's) refers to the gin sling as "a drink mainly composed of gin and lemon" and states...

era. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable refers to them as "later list[s]", suggesting the lists were created after the Middle Ages. Many of the structures...

by their proper names without any 'beating about the bush'". Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable in 1913, provides a definition largely consistent...

less marvelous and dangerous than the pear of Palioly." Another mention is found in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898), which claims that "robbers...

of Things Familiar, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and The Reader's Handbook, among other reference books. E. Cobham Brewer was the son of Elisabeth...

second (1894) edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The 15th edition of Brewer's defined the silly season as "the part of the year when Parliament...

meaning anyone, although Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable defines the term to specify "a set of nobodies; persons of no note". Similar expressions...

August 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014. Dent, Susie, ed. (2012). Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable (19th ed.). Edinburgh: Chambers. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-550-10245-4...

defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims,...

Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with explanations, London 1814, pp.95-7 Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, London 1954, p.815 Published...

knew not what". Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable lists, without citation, Maha-pudma and Chukwa as names from a "popular rendition of a Hindu myth...

Office. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, William Morris editor, 1971 Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, Millennium Edition...

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of E. Cobham Brewer, compiler of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Brewer was born in Norwich, the son of a Baptist schoolmaster. He matriculated at...

edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, published in 2012. In 2012, The Daily Telegraph identified the following people as being part of a "Chipping...

keeps the laws of old untouched. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable lists Maha-pudma and Chukwa are names from a "popular rendition of a Hindu myth...

in 1791, also uses the phrase: Thou paints auld nature to the nines, In thy sweet Caledonian lines. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (New and Revised...