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Grief

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To come to grief. To be ruined; to fail in business. As lots of money is the fulness of joy, so the want of it is the grief of griefs. The Americans call the dollar “almighty.”

 

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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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Grey from Grief
Grey Goose Wing (The)
Grey Mare’s Tail
Grey Washer by the Ford (The)
Greybeard (A)
Greycoats
Greyhound
Greyhound
Greys
Gridiron
Grief
Grievance - monger
Griffen Horse (The)
Griffin
Griffon, Griffen, or Griffin
Grig
Grim (Giant)
Grimace
Grimalkin or Graymalkin (French, gris malkin)
Grimes (Peter)
Grimm’s Law