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 NINTH SERIES.

211

Proverbs and Phrases:

Between ('twixt or betwixt) the devil and the

deep sea, vii. 4 49; viii.48; ix.360; xii.128,272 Big an' bug, ii. 144, 375

Bill, whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, i. Ill Black Maria, viii. 263 Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, iii. 420 Blind eateth many a fly, iii. 405 Bloated armaments, v. 455 Blood is thicker than water, viii. 238, 428 Blows rayther thin, i. 226, 475 ; ii. 255 Boeytter, Brea in griene Tzis, vi. 366, 452 Box Harry, ix. 449 ; x. 13, 98 Breeches : Wearing the breeches, i. 403 Broaching the admiral, i. 128, 271, 350 ; ii. 154,

230

Bullet : He 'a got the bullet, ii. 148 By gar, x. 457

Calling of the sea, ii. 11, 533 Cards and spades, xi. 508 ; xii. 138 Carking care, vii. 426 Carpet : On the carpet, i. 26, 95 ; iii. 117 Catching the Speaker's eye, iii. 211 Caved in, iii. 385 Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute, ix. 165,

219, 351

Chalk on the door, i. 408 ; ii. 37 Cherchez la femme, xi. 76 Cheval de St. Jean, vi. 229, 291 Christmas cheers, vi. 370 Circular joys, ix. 466 ; x. 32 Clubbing the battalion, vii. 110, 171, 314 Coals to Newcastle, xi. 495 Cock and cryer, ix. 248, 313 Cold shoulder, xii. 1 28 Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est, vi. 1 03,

249, 313

Coming out of the little end of the horn, vi. 98 Common or garden, iv. 89, 155 Comparisons are odious, v. 46, 195, 292 Congeniality of great minds, iv. 229 Cound, village name, i. 48, 251 Coute que coute, ii. 425 Crossing the bar, ix. 224 Crow to pluck, i. 367, 438 ; ii. 155 Crying down credit, xii. 29, 138, 213, 257, 352 Curse of Scotland, iv. 39 Cut the painter, xii. 307 Cutting his stick, ii. 326, 417 ; iii. 272, 434 Defects of his qualities, i. 367, 435 Devil : Who sups with the devil, &c., ii. 124

178, 295, 334 Devil walking through Athlone, v. 336, 426, 464 ;

vi. 14

Do it by degrees, as the cat ate the pestle, ii. 265 Doing the dancers, vi. 288, 418 Donkey : Twopence more and up goes the

donkey, i. 328, 475 Dor : Giving the dor, ii. 44 Down to the ground, i. 145, 291 ; ii. 73 Ductus litterarum, ii. 407 Dutch courage, xi. 47, 97, 237 Eat cherries with princes, x. 428, 470 ; xi. 36 Economy is second or third cousin to avarice,

xii. 486

Proverbs and Phrases :

Embarras des richesses, x. 367, 475 ; xi. 355

Empress of India, vi. 486

End : An end, v. 65, 137, 175, 277

England a country of many religions and only

one sauce, ix. 407

English take their pleasures sadly, xii. 32, 372, 509 Enjoy bad health, ii. 248, 474 Esprit d'escalier, i. 267, 373 Facing the music, ii. 135 Fall below par, viii. 110 February fill-dyke, v. 188, 277, 384, 502 Fegges after peace, ii. 387, 430, 536 Fig for him, ii. 185 First catch your hare, xii. 125, 518 Flea in the ear, xii. 67, 138, 196 Fools and foumards can't see by dayleet, ii. 88 Gentleman : Three generations to make a gentle- man, ii. 387

Gentleman from Ohio, x. 128 Gentlemen and ladies, French usage, iv. 476, 528 Getting up early, vi. 492 Gimlague : To ride gimlague, iii. 467 Gleg : To be aff the gleg, iv. 47, 251, 314 Glewed to the worlde, iv. 166, 315 Glorious uncertainty of the game, viii. 164, 231 Glorious uncertainty of the law, iii. 247 Go gaiters, vi. 448, 513 Go o' simmer, iii. 367 God speed you and the beadle, viii. 422 ; ix. 12,

111 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, i. 400,

491; ii. 136

God's first creature, which was light, iv. 398, 462 God's silly vassal, xii. 447 Godfrey : To Godfrey, iv. 445 Gone to Jericho, vi. 405 ; vii. 55, 472 Gone to Wellingborough fair to blow their

bellows, viii. 421 Grand tour, vii. 509 ; viii. 114 Grandmotherly government, xi. 189 Grass widow, x. 205, 374 Grave of great reputations, v. 48, 156 Great oath, iv. 438 Greave or greave-by, iv. 107 Green-eyed monster, v. 65, 162, 295, 406 Grin through, viii. 225, 310 Gropsing of the evening, iv. 247 Gy : At an idle gy, iv. 27 Haft : By the haft, iv. 287, 355 ; v. 38, 92 Half rat and half weasel, vii. 269 Hamlet : Playing Hamlet, i. 14 Hand of glory, i. 52

Handsome is that handsome does, i. 387 Hard siege, iii. 229 Hare : To catch a hare with a tabor, i. 468 ;

ii. 11

Hare's foot : To kiss the hare's foot, iii. 148 Head and harigald money, iv. 379, 446 Hear, hear ! i. 216 ; iii. 133 Heart of grace, vi. 107, 234 Heels o'er gowdie, iii. 386, 453 Hell-in-harness, xi. 187, 338, 417 Hill me up, iii. 285, 435, 496; iv. 234; viii.

112, 192