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Fourteen Hundred (A Stock Exchange warning)

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It is to give notice that a stranger has entered ʹChange. The term was in use in Defoe’s time.

 

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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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Foul Proof
Foul-weather Jack
Fountain of Death
Fountain of Youth
Four Kings
Four Letters
Four Masters
Fourierism
Fourierists
Fourteen
Fourteen Hundred (A Stock Exchange warning)
Fourth Estate of the Realm (The)
Fourth of July (The)
Fowler (Henry the Fowler)
Fox (The old)
Fox
Fox
Fox (To)
Fox-fire
Fox-tail
Fox’s Sleep (A)