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Badinguet

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A nickname given to Napoleon III. It was the name of the workman whose clothes he wore when he contrived to escape from the fort of Ham, in 1846.

“If Badinguet and Bismarck have a row together let them settle it between them with their fists, instead of troubling hundreds of thousands of men who … have no wish to fight.”—Zola: The Downfall, chap. ii. (1892).

 

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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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Bad Debts
Bad Form
Bad Lot (A)
Bad Shot (A)
Badaud
Badge of Poverty
Badge-men
Badger (A)
Badger (To)
Badinage
Badinguet
Badingueux
Badminton
Baffle
Bag
Bag (To)
Bags
Bag-man (A)
Bag o Nails
Baga de Secrētis
Bagatelle (A)

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