a master, is the Dutch baas, head of the household. Hence the great man, chief, a masher, a swell.
“Mr. Stead calls Mr. OʹConnor the ‘Boss of the House.ʹ”
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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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