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Reply Churlish (The)

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Sir, you are no judge; your opinion has no weight with me. Or, to use Touchstone’s illustration: “If a courtier tell me my beard is not well cut, and I disable his judgment, I give him the reply churlish, which is the fifth remove from the lie direct, or rather, the lie direct in the fifth degree.”

 

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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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Reply Churlish (The)
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