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Cake…Dough

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I wish my cake were dough again. I wish I had never married. Bellenden Ker says the proverb is a corruption of Ei wʹhissche my keke was dʹhow en geen, which he says is tantamount to “Something whispers within me—repentance, would that my marriage were set aside.”

 

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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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