• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many...
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  • Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable (ISBN 0-304-36334-0) was created by Jo O'Donoghue and Sean McMahon for the Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase...
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    Claddagh ring (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    ISBN 0-7607-8219-9 Jo O'Donoghue and Sean McMahon (2004) Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable Patricia McAdoo. (2005) Claddagh: The Tale of the Ring: A Galway...
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    ISBN 978-1-84889-871-4. OCLC 893674562. O'Donoghue, Jo. Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers. ISBN 9780199916191...
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  • Mallow and Fermoy, a tract dignified by the name of the garden of Ireland [...] Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Philadelphia:...
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  • (2006). "Black Irish". Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable. Chambers Harrap Publishers. ISBN 9780199916191. "Malcolm X and United States Policies...
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    and the completion of the Tudor conquest of Ireland". In the 2004 Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable, Seán McMahon described "British Isles"...
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    Cloak of Kinsale". The Kinsale Record. 4(43). "Irish Cloak". (2009) Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable. London, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd...
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    Bodhrán (category Pages with Irish IPA)
    comhaltas.ie. Retrieved 2017-09-08. "Bodhrán - from Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable". search.credoreference.com. 2009. Retrieved 2024-03-07...
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    era. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable refers to them as "later list[s]", suggesting the lists were created after the Middle Ages. Many of the structures...
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    middle bacon and tattie scones. Occasionally haggis, white pudding, fruit pudding. Early editions of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable referred to...
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  • MacGuffin (category Film and video terminology)
    Retrieved July 14, 2014. Humphries (1986, p. 188) Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable (1st ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1992...
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  • Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Religion, page 958. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (2009). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Chambers Harrap Publishers...
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    same until at least 1898. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer included this definition in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Care killed the Cat. It is said that "a...
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    French leave (redirect from Irish_Exit)
    pitted the French against an Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish alliance. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Millennium Edition; London: Cassell, 1999)...
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  • Second Dáil (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    Slightly constitutional party, a - Oxford Reference. Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable. Chambers Harrap. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199916191.001...
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    locker was to be lost at sea. The 1898 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable connects Davy to the West-Indian duppy (duffy) and Jones to biblical Jonah: He’s gone...
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    knew not what". Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable lists, without citation, Maha-pudma and Chukwa as names from a "popular rendition of a Hindu myth...
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    Black's Law Dictionary, a law dictionary Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Canadian Oxford Dictionary Century Dictionary Chambers Dictionary Collins...
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    22-23 Binchy, Brewer's dictionary of Irish phrase & fable, 393 Johnston, Minnesota's Irish, 43-46 Kunz, Saint Paul: The First One Hundred and Fifty Years...
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    Eileen Gray (category Irish people of Scottish descent)
    McMahon, Sean; O'Donoghue, Jo (2009). "Gray, Eileen". Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable. Retrieved 8 February 2018. Banham, Reyner (1 February...
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    (2004). Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 799. ISBN 978-0-304-36334-6. Media related to Tom and Jerry (drink)...
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  • Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit...
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  • Kilmore Carols (category Irish Christian hymns)
    Diarmaid. The Wexford Carols. Naas, 1982 "Wexford Carols", Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable. Chambers Harrap, 2009 "The Kilmore Carols". askaboutireland...
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    can live long and prosper, London: Kogan Page, ISBN 9780749449285 Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, "Advertising slogans of the 20th century"...
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    Police van (category Irish-American history)
    published in 1852. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable suggests the name came from Maria Lee, a large and fearsome black keeper of a sailors' boarding...
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    Kotys (category Epithets of Persephone)
    Suda Encyclopedia, theta 381 Cobham Brewer, Ebenezer (1894). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Revised and Updated Edition. New York: Harper &...
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    include Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (the Prim and Juverna theories in early editions; the 19th edition follows Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase...
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    Millennium Clock, Dublin (category Monuments and memorials in the Republic of Ireland)
    The Irish Times. Retrieved 17 May 2022. McMahon, Sean; O'Donoghue, Jo (2001). "Chime in the Slime". Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase & Fable. Chambers...
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    burned alludes, according to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "to taking chestnuts from the fire". In France the fable was often used to satirise...
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