“This may be play to you, ʹtis death to us.” The allusion is to the fable of the boys throwing stones at some frogs. (Roger LʹEstrange.)
As good as a play. So said King Charles when he attended the discussion of Lord Ross’s “Divorce Bill.”
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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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