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Itching of the Thumb

,

according to Shakespeare, betokens the approach of evil.

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something evil this way comes.”


Macbeth, iv. 1.

 

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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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Itch
Itching Ears (To have)
Itching Palm (An)
Itching of the Eye
Itching of the Lips
Itching of the Nose
Itching of the Thumb
Ithacensian Suitors (The)
Ithuriel
Ithuriel’s Spear
Itinerary (An)
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Ivan
Ivanhoe
Ivanovitch
Ivories
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