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Bermudas

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To live in the Bermudas, i.e. in some out-of-the-way place for cheapness. The shabby genteel hire a knocker in some West-end square, where letters may be left for them, but live in the Bermudas, or narrow passages north of the Strand, near Covent Garden.

 

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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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Bergelmir
Berger
Bergomask
Berkley (Mr.)
Berkshire (Saxon, Bearoc - scire, forest-shire)
Berlin Decree
Berlin Time
Berliners
Bermeja
Bermoothes
Bermudas
Bernard (St.)
Bernard
Bernard Soup (St.)
Bernardo
Bernardo del Carpio
Bernard’s Inn
Berners or Barnes (Juliana)
Bernese
Bernesque Poetry
Bernouilli’s Numbers

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