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According to Cocker. All right, according to Cocker. According to established rules, according to what is correct. Edward Cocker (1631–1677) published an arithmetic which ran through sixty editions. The phrase, “According to Cocker,” was popularised by Murphy in his farce called The Apprentice.

 

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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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Cock up your Head [foot, etc.]
Cock your Eye (To)
Cock your Hat (To)
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Cockaigne (Land of)
Cockatrice
Cocked Hat (A)
Cocked-hat Club (The)
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Cockle Shells
Cockles
Cockles of the Heart
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Cockpit of Europe
Cockshy (A)