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Plover

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To live like a plover, i.e. to live on nothing, to live on air. Plovers do not, however, live on air, but feed largely on small insects. They also eat worms, which they hunt for in newly-ploughed fields.

 

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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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Pleydell (Mr. Paulus)
Pliable
Pliny
Pliny’s Doves
Plith
Plon-plon
Plot
Plotcock
Plough
Plough Monday
Plover
Plowden
Plowman
Pluck
Pluck his Goose
Plucked Pigeon (A)
Plugson of Undershot
Plum
Plume Oneself (To)
Plumes
Plumper (A)