Bran
.If not Bran, it is Bran’s brother. If not the real “Simon Pure,” it is just as good. A complimentary expression. Bran was Fingal’s dog, a mighty favourite.
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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.