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Lather

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A good lather is half a shave. This is the French proverb, “Barbe bien savonné est à moitié faite.”

 

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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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