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Wooden Sword

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To wear the wooden sword. To keep back sales by asking too high a price. Fools used to wear wooden swords or “daggers of lath.”

 

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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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Woodbind
Woodbine
Woodcock (A)
Wooden Horse (The)
Wooden Horse (To ride the)
Wooden Horse of Troy
Wooden Mare (The)
Wooden Spoon
Wooden Sword
Wooden Wall
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Woodfall
Woodwardian Professor
Wool
Wool-gathering
Woollen
Woolsack
Woolwich Infant (The)
Worcester (Woost-er)