It was once supposed that little worms were bred in the fingers of idle servants. To this Shakespeare alludes—
“A round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid.”
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i. 4.
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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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