Grandmother
. My grandmother’s review, the British Review. Lord Byron said, in a sort of jest, “I bribed my grandmother’s review.” The editor of the British called him to account, and this gave the poet a fine opportunity of pointing the battery of his satire against the periodical. (Don Juan.)
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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.