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Brewer's: Poser
The bishop's examining chaplain; the examiner at Eton for the King's College fellowship. (Welsh, posiaw, to examine; French, poser; Latin, pono.) Hence, a puzzling question.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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