Fish

The French have a remarkable locution respecting fish as a food:

“A près poisson, lait est poison;

A près poisson, le vin est bon;

A près poisson, noix est contre-poison.”

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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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