- skip - Brewer’s

Daggers

.

To speak daggers, To look daggers. To speak or look so as to wound the sensibilities.

“I will speak daggers to her; but will use none.”—Shakespeare: Hamlet, iii. 2.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Dactyl (Will)
Dactyls (The)
Dad or Daddy
Daddy Long-legs
Dædalos
Daffodil (The)
Dag (day)
Dagger
Dagger Ale
Dagger-scene in the House of Commons
Daggers
Daggers Drawn (At)
Daggle-tail or Draggle-tail
Dagobert
Dagon (Hebrew, Jag On, the fish On)
Dagonet (Sir)
Daguerreotype
Dagun
Dahak
Dahlia
Dahomey