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Tom Tailor

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A tailor.

“‘We rend our hearts, and not our garments.ʹ—‘The better for yourselves, and the worse for Tom Taylor,ʹ said the baron.”—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxv.

 

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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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