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Bobbit

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If it isnʹt weel bobbit weʹll bob it again. If it is not done well enough, we will try again. To bob is to dance, and literally the proverb means, “If it is not well danced, we will dance over again.”

 

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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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Boards
Boast (The)
Boast of England (The)
Boat
Boatswain
Boaz and Jachin
Bob
Bobadil
Bobbery
Bobbish
Bobbit
Bobby
Boccus (King)
Bockland or Bookland
Bod
Boden-See
Bodies
Bodkin
Bodkin
Bodkin
Bodle