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Give the Boys a Holiday

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Anaxagʹoras, on his death-bed, being asked what honour should be conferred upon him, replied, “Give the boys a holiday.”

 

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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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Girdle (St. Colman’s)
Girdle of Venus
Girl
Girondists (g soft)
Girouette
Gis (g soft)
Gitanos
Give and Take (policy)
Give it Him (To)
Give the Boys a Holiday
Give the Devil his Due
Gizzard
Gjallar
Glacis
Gladsheim [Home of joy]
Gladstone Bag (A)
Glamorgan
Glasgow Arms
Glasgow Magistrate (A)
Glass