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Guns

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To blow great guns. To be very boisterous and windy. Noisy and boisterous as the reports of great guns.

To run away from their own guns. To eat their own words; desert what is laid down as a principle. The allusion is obvious.

“The Government could not, of course, run away from their guns.”—Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1893, p. 193.

 

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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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Gulliver (Lemuel)
Gulnare
Gummed
Gumption
Gun
Gun
Gun Cotton
Gun Money
Gun Room
Guns
Gunga [pronounce Gun-jah]
Gunner
Gunpowder Plot
Gunter’s Chain
Günther
Gurgoils
Gurme
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