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Countercheck Quarrelsome (The)

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Sir, how dare you utter such a falsehood? Sir, you know that it is not true. This is the third remove from the lie direct; or rather, the lie direct in the third degree.

The Reproof Valiant, the Countercheck Quarrelsome, the Lie Circumstantial, and the Lie Direct, are not clearly defined by Touchstone. That is not true, how dare you utter such a falsehood, if you say so, you are a liar, you lie, or are a liar, seem to fit the four degrees.

 

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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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Coulin
Councils
Counsel
Count Kin with One (To)
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Count out the House (To)
Count Upon (To)
Countenance (To)
Counter-caster
Countercheck Quarrelsome (The)
Counterforts
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Counterscarp
Countess di Civillari (The)
Country
Country-dance
Coup [coo]
Coup dEtat (French)
Coup de Grâce