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Head Shaved (Get your)

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You are a dotard. Go and get your head shaved like other lunatics. (See Bath.)

“Thou thinkst that monarchs never can act ill,

Get thy head shaved, poor fool, or think so still.”


 

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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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Hawse-hole
Hawthorn
Hay, Hagh, or Haugh
Hayston (Frank)
Hayward
Hazazel
Hazel
Hazel-nut
Head
Head Shaved (Get your)
Head and Ears
Head and Shoulders
Head of Cattle
Head over Heels (To turn)
Heads or Tails
Heads I Win, Tails you Lose
Heady
Healing Gold
Health
Heap