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Decaniller

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To be off, to decamp, to escape. A curious instance of argot. Canille is old French for chenille, a pupa, imago, or chrysalis. These afterwards become winged insects and take their flight. So a visitor says in France, “Il faut me sauver,” or “Il faut decaniller.” I must be off.

 

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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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Death’s Head on a Mopstick
Deaths-man
Debateable Land
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Débris
Debt of Nature
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