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Brewer's: Friar Gerund
Designed to ridicule the pulpit oratory of Spain in the eighteenth century; full of quips and cranks, tricks and startling monstrosities. (Joseph Isla: Life of Friar Gerund, 1714-1783.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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