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Stripes

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A tiger. In India a tiger is called Master Stripes.

“Catch old Stripes come near my bullock, if he thought a ‘shooting-ironʹ was anywhere about. Even if there were another Stripes, he would not show himself that night.”—Cornhill Magazine (My Tiger Watch), July, 1883.

 

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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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Streak of Silver (The)
Street and Walker (Messrs.)
Stretcher
Strike (A)
Strike
Strike Amain
Strike a Bargain (To)
Strike Sail
Strike while the Iron is Hot
String
Stripes
Strode
Stroke
Stromkarl
Strong
Strong-back
Strong-bow
Strontian
Struldbrugs
Stubble Geese
Stuck Pig