The pit of the stomach. To knock a man on the “bellows” takes his “wind (breath) away.”
Sing old rose and burn the bellows. (See Sing.)
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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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