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Broken Feather (A)

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A broken feather in his wing. A scandal connected with one’s character.

“If an angel were to walk about, Mrs. Sam Hurst would never rest till she had found out where he came from; and perhaps whether he had a broken feather in his wing.”—Mrs. Oliphant: Phœbe.

 

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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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Broad Arrow
Broad Bottom Ministry (1744)
Broadcloth
Broadside
Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagian
Brocken
Brocklehurst (The Rev. Robert)
Brogue
Brogues
Broken Feather (A)
Broken Music
Broken on the Wheel
Broker
Brontes
Bronzomarte
Brook (Master)
Brooks of Sheffield
Broom
Brosier
Brother