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Abroad

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You are all abroad. Wide of the mark; not at home with the subject. Abroad; in all directions.

“An elm displays her dusky arms abroad.”


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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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