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Cracked Pipkins

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Cracked pipkins are discovered by their sound. Ignorance is betrayed by speech.

“They bid you talk—my honest song

Bids you for ever hold your tongue:

Silence with some is wisdom most profound

Cracked pipkins are discovered by the sound.”


Peter Pindar: Lord B. and his Motions.

 

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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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Coystril
Cozen
Crab (A)
Crab-cart
Crack
Crack-brained
Crack a Bottle
Crack a Crib (To)
Crack Up a Person (To)
Cracked
Cracked Pipkins
Cracker
Cracknells (from the French craquelin)
Cradle-land
Craft (A)
Craft (A)
Craft
Craigmillar Castle
Crakys of War
Cram
Crambe bis Cocta [“cabbage boiled twice”]