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Onion Pennies

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Roman coins dug up at Silchester; so called from one Onion, a giant, who, the country people say, inhabited the buried city. Silchester used to be called by the British Ard-Oneoni.e. Ardal Onion (the region of Einion or Onion).

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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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On the Loose
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One - horse Universities
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One too Many for Him (I was)
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