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We Three

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Did you never see the picture ofWe Three”? asks Sir Andrew Aguecheek—not meaning himself, Sir Toby Belch, and the clown, but referring to a public-house sign of Two Loggerheads, with the inscription, “We three loggerheads be,” the third being the spectator.

 

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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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Wax-bond End (A)
Way-bit
Ways and Means
Wayfaring Tree (The)
Wayland
Wayland Smith’s Cave
Wayland Wood (near Watton, Norfolk)
Wayleaves
Wayzgoose
We
We Three
We Left Our Country for Our Country’s Good
Weak as Water
Weak-kneed Christian or Politician (A)
Weapon Salve
Wear
Weasel
Weather Breeder (A)
Weather-cock
Weather-eye
Weather-gage