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Beau Jour beau Retour (A)

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My turn will come next. (Never used in a good sense, but always to signify the resentment of an injury.)

 

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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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Beat. (French, abattre, to abate.)
Beaten to a Mummy
Beaten with his own Staff
Beating about the Bush
Beating the Bounds
Beati Possidentes
Beatific Vision
Beatrice
Bean
Beau Ideal
Beau Jour beau Retour (A)
Beau Lion (Un)
Beau Monde
Beau Trap
Beauclerc [good scholar]
Beaumontague [pronounce bo-montaig]
Beautiful
Beautiful Parricide
Beauty
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty of Buttermere