1894 Brewer’s / T / Traveller’s Licence
The long bow; exaggeration.
“If the captain has not taken ‘traveller’s licence,ʹ we have in Norway a most successful development of peasant proprietorship.”—W. Bowerman.
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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.