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Bear Garden

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This place is a perfect bear-gardenthat is, full of confusion, noise, tumult, and quarrels. Bear-gardens were places where bears used to be kept and baited for public amusement.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bean
Beans
Bean Feast
Bean Goose (The)
Bean-king (The)
Bear (A)
Bear (The)
Bear (To)
Bear of Bradwardine (The)
Bear Account (A)
Bear Garden
Bear-leader
Bears are caught by Honey
Beard
Beard (To)
Bearded
Bearded Women:
Bearings
Bearnais (Le)
Beasts (Heraldic):
Beastly Drunk