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Devil and Bag oʹNails (The)

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The public-house by Buckingham Gate was so called, but the sign was The Blackamoor’s Head and the Woolpack. (Remarkable Trials, ii. p. 14; 1765.)

 

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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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Deucalion
Deuce
Dence-ace
Deuce of Cards (The)
Deus
Deva’s Vale
Development
Devil
Devil among the Tailors (The)
Devil and Bag oNails (The)
Devil and Dr. Faustus (The)
Devil and his Dam (The)
Devil and the Deep Sea (Between the)
Devil and Tom Walker (The)
Devil catch the Hindmost (The)
Devil in Dublin City (The)
Devil looking Over Lincoln. (The)
Devil loves Holy Water (As the)
Devil-may-care (A)
Devil must be Striking (The) (German)