A degree after having failed at the poll.
“He had not even the merit of being a plodding man, and he finally took what used to be called a post-mortem degree.”—My Rectors, p. 63.
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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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