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Brewer's: Black Tom
The Earl of Ormonde, Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth; so called from his ungracious ways and “black looks.” “He being very stately in apparel, and erect in port, despite…Brewer's: Old Tom
Cordial gin. Thomas Norris, one of the men employed in Messrs. Hodges' distillery, opened a gin palace in Great Russell Street, Covenant Garden, and called the gin concocted by Thomas…Brewer's: Tib and Tom
Tib is the ace of trumps, and Tom is the knave of trumps in the game of Gleek. “That gamester needs must overcome, That can play both Tib and Tom.” Randolph: Hermuphrodite, p. 640.…Brewer's: Tom Folio
Thomas Rawlinson, the bootlegbooksc. (1681-1725.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom Fool's ColoursTom A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R…Brewer's: Tom Foolery
The coarse, witless jokes of a Tom Fool. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom LongTom Fool's Colours A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Brewer's: Tom and Jerry
i.e. Corinthian Tom and Jerry Hawthorn, the two chief characters in Pierce Egan's Life in London, illustrated by Cruikshank. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Tom Long
Waiting for Tom Long- i.e. a wearisome long time. The pun, of course, is on the word long. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom RawTom Foolery A B C D E…Brewer's: Tom Raw
The griffin; applied at one time to a subaltern in India for a year and a day after his joining the army. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom TailorTom Long…Brewer's: Tom Tailor
A tailor. “ `We rend our hearts, and not our garments.” - “ `The better for yourselves, and the worse for Tom Taylor', said the baron.” —SirW.Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxv. Source:…Brewer's: Tom Thumb
the nursery tale, is from the French Le Petit Poucet, by Charles Perrault (1630), but it is probably of Anglo-Saxon origin. There is in the Bodleian Library a ballad about Tom Thumb, “…Trending
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