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Gradʹgrind (Thomas)

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A man who measures everything with rule and compass, allows nothing for the weakness of human nature, and deals with men and women as a mathematician with his figures. He shows that summum jus is suprema injuria. (Dickens: Hard Times.)

“The gradgrinds under value and disparage it.”—Church Review.

 

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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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Grace’s Card or Grace-card
Grace Cup
Grace Darling
Grace Days
Gracechurch (London)
Graceless Florin
Graciosa
Gracioso
Gradasso
Gradely
Gradgrind (Thomas)
Græmes (The)
Graham
Grahame’s Dyke
Grail (The Holy)
Grain
Gramercy
Grammar
Grammarians
Grammont
Granary of Europe

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