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Tiring Irons

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Iron rings to be put on or taken off a ring as a puzzle. Lightfoot calls them “tiring irons never to be untied.”

 

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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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Tip One the Wink (To)
Tiphany
Tiphys
Tipperary Rifle (A)
Tippling Act (The)
Tippling House
Tipstaff
Tiptoe of Expectation (On the)
Tirer une Dent
Tiresias
Tiring Irons
Tirled
Tironian Sign (The)
Tiryns
Tirynthian Swain
Tit
Tit for Tat
Titan
Titan’s War with Jove (The)
Titania
Tithonus