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Mackerel Sky (A)

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A sky spotted like a mackerel. (Mackerel from the Latin, macula, a spot whence the French maquereau, German mackrele, Welsh macrell, etc.)

 

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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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