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Commons

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To put one on short commons. To stint him, to give him scanty meals. In the University of Cambridge the food provided for each student at breakfast is called his commons; hence food in general or meals.

To come into commons. To enter a society in which the members have a common or general dinner table.

 

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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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Commendation Ninepence
Commis-voyageur (A)
Committee
Committing Falsehood
Commodity of Brown Paper (A)
Commodore
Common Pleas
Common Prayer
Common Sense
Commoner
Commons
Commons in Gross
Commonwealths (Ideal)
Companion Ladder
Companions of Jehu
Comparisons are Odorous
Complementary Colours
Complexion
Compline
Compostella
Compte rendu