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Brewer's: Gamps and Harrises
Workhouse nurses, real or supposititious. (See Gamp.)
“Mr. Gathorne Hardy is to look after the Gamps and Harrises of Lambeth and the Strand.” —The Daily Telegraph.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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