1894 Brewer’s / D / Door-opener (The)
So Cratēs, the Theban was called, because every morning he used to go round Athens and rebuke the people for their late rising.
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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.