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GENERAL INDEX.
Proverbs and Phrases :
An honest man and a good bowler, ix. 308,
372
Anne : As dead as Queen Anne, i. 347, 430 Annus mirabilis, i. 464 As big as a Dunstable lark, viii. 469, 515 As big as a Paignton pudding, vii. 87 As busy as Throp's wife, viii. 418; ix. 12,
175
As cool as a clock, x. 247 As dark as a stack of black cats, iv. 287 As sound as a roach's, x. 468 ; xi. 18, 96 As sure as God made little apples, iv. 289,
377
At outs, vi. 447
At sixes and sevens, viii. 190, 238 Audi alteram partem, i. 464 Austria the China of Europe, viii. 170 Bag and baggage, vi, 108 Balance of power, xii. 221 Beat as Batty, iv. 250, 314 Bed of roses, iv. 126, 176, 216 Before one can say Jack Eobinson, xii. 279,
387
Beneath his horse, i. 449 Best company consists of five persons, i.
367, 433 : vi. 254 Better give a landlord corn to feed his horse
than hear his cock crow, viii. 330 Bis peccare in bello non licet, i. 464 Bloody shirt, xii. 318, 368 Bolt from the blue, x. 448 Broad-Bottomed Administration, i. 328 Broken counsellor, 1709, iv. 368, 458, 496 Brunt of the battle, v. 89, 215 Busy as Batty, iv. 250, 314 But more was lost on Mohacs field, i. 258 By a iluke, vi. 26, 114 By hook or by crook, xi. 66, 215 Calais lost for lack of mustard, ii. 308 Camel that lost its ears seeking a set of horns,
viii. 30, 115, 136, 215, 257 Carry one's life in one's hands, vi. 508 ; vii.
72, 117, 255, 416 Castle in the air, or in Spain, iv. 66, 113, 178,
259
Catching the Speaker's eye, ii. 285 Chatter about Harriet, x. 266 Children to bed and the goose to the fire, xi.
429
Christians to the lion, i. 428 492 Clear case, v. 67
Cle>icalisme, voila 1'ennemi ! i. 306 Cold hands and a warm heart, xii. 480 Confounded red herrings, v. 288, 376 Credo quia impossibile, v. 507 Cuckoos to clear the mud away, i. 208, 257,
316, 492
Day : The Day ! xi. 7 Diamond cut diamond, ix. 227 Dickens : what the dickens ! i. 160 Die in beauty, iii. 7, 74, 112, 234 Die in one's shoes or boots, v. 249, 377 Dish of tea, vi. 370, 433, 494 Do you come from Topsham ? vii. 229 Don't nail his ears to the pump, v. 428 ; vi. 76 Draggin' the divil by the tail, ix. 14 Duck's news, xi. 110, 174 Duck's storm : goose's storm, xi. 188, 254,
370
Proverbs and Phrases :
Ducks to clear mud away, i. 208, 257, 316, 492'
Dutchman's anchor, y. 330, 435
Entente Cordiale, viii. 47, 474
Et ego in Arcadia vixi, xi. 228
Every Irishman has a potato in his head, iv
209
Every man has his price, x. 66 Everything comes to him who knows how
to wait, ii. 386 Evil and good are God's right hand and left,
xi. 341
Far cry to Lochow (Loch Awe ?), vii. 29, 95 Felix opportunitate mortis, xii. 10, 57 Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum,.
viii. 105 ; ix. 468 Fill the bill, viii. 390 Fine flower of poetry, iv. 430 Fire out, i. 405 Folish babeling, iv. 408, 475 Forbes Mackenzie hour of eleven, i. 268, 353 From China to Peru, xi. 6 Game leg, ii. 229, 296, 315, 392 Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas, xii. 7, 68,,
124, 169
Gentle and protable strangers, xii. 10 Get one's dander up, iv. 468 ; vii. 15, 52, 163 Go to the lantern, xii. 100 Go West, xii. 6, 391 Ground-hog case, xi. 185
Gut verloren etwas verloren, vi. 188, 391, 454 Hair drawn through milk, xi. 185, 272 Happy the country whose annals are dull, iv.
68
Harp struck by lightning, iv. 449, 498 He dwells far from neighbors that's fain to
praise himself, vi. 507 He will either make a spoon or spoil a horn, i_
57
Hem of a noise, i. 108, 258 High days, holidays, and bonfire nights, uV
149, 193
Hinter die Ohren schreiben, vi. 388, 455 His beake greater than his wings, iv. 69 Hungary wine for cheesemongers, xii. 182 Hussein : To be treated like Khoia Hussein,.
viii. 232, 278
I don't think, xii. 321, 370, 409, 490 I fegs, iii. 206 If I am not the rose, I have lived near it.
vii. 349, 397, 436 If you ask for salt, you ask for sorrow, ii. 150,.
Tyo
In black and white, iii. 206 In cauda venenum, i. 505 In petto, xii. 399 In spite of his teeth, iv. 267 In the lexicon of vouth there is no such word'
as fail, i. 168 " In touch with, vii. 188 It always rains Quaker week, v. 467^ It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, xii.-
66, 123, 166 It takes all sorts of people to make a world,.
i. 369 ; ii. 634 J'ayju Carcassonne, v. 348, 473 ; vi. 67, 137,.
Jump down a man's throat, ii. 307
J'y suis, j'y reste, iv. 44, 94, 165, 197, 252, 294
KcucoD/c<5/>a/cos KO.KOV wou, ii. 408
