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Expression

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A geographical expression. A term applied to a tract of country with no recognised nationality.

“This territory is to a very great extent occupied by one race … and yet to the present day Germany is little more than a geographical expression.”—Daily Telegraph (before 1871).

 

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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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Exoteric
Expectation Week
Experimental Philosophy
Experimentum Crucis (Latin)
Experto Crede
Explosion
Exponent
Exposé (French)
Express Train
Expressed Oils
Expression
Exquisite
Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye