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Corns

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To tread on one’s corns. To irritate one’s prejudices; to annoy another by disregard to his pet opinions or habits.

 

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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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Corinthian Tom
Corinthian War (The)
Corked
Corker or Calker
Corking-pins
Cormoran
Corn … Horn
Corn in Egypt (There’s)
Corn-Law Rhymer
Cornstalks
Corns
Cornage
Corneille du Boulevard
Corneille dEsope (La)
Corner (A)
Corner
Corner (The)
Corner-stone (The)
Cornet
Cornette
Corngrate

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