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How about the long-tailed beggar? A reproof given to one who is drawing the longbow too freely. The tale is that a boy who had been a short voyage pretended on his return to have forgotten everything belonging to his native home, and asked his mother what she called that “long-tailed beggar,” meaning the cat.

 

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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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Long-headed
Long Home
Long Lane
Long Meg of Westminster
Long Odds
Long Parliament
Long Peter
Long Run
Long-Sword (Longue épée)
Long Tail
Long-tailed
Long Tom Coffin
Long Words
Longboat
Longbow
Longchamps
Longcrown
Longevity
Longius
Longo Intervallo
Looby