Here is a pun between anser, a goose, and answer, to reply. What is the Latin for goose? Answer [anser] brandy. (See Tace the Latin for Candle.)
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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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