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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Kinsale cloak (redirect from Kinsale Cloak (also called Irish Cloak))
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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Full breakfast (redirect from Irish breakfast)
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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Kilkenny cats (redirect from Cats of Kilkenny)
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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