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Dash my Wig. Dash my Buttons

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Dash is a euphemism for a common oath; and wig, buttons, etc., are relics of a common fashion at one time adopted in comedies and by “mashers” of swearing without using profane language.

 

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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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Dark Horse (A)
Darkest Hour is that before the Dawn (The)
Darky
Darley Arabians
Daron, Daronne (French)
Daronne
Dart
Darwinian Theory
Dash
Dash my Wig. Dash my Buttons
Date
Daughter
Daughter of Peneus (The)
Daughter of the Horseleech
Dauphin
Davenport
Davenport (The Brothers)
David
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