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Hired Grief

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Mutes and other undertakersʹ employees at funerals. The Under-sheriff Layton, in his will, desired that he might be “buried without hired grief” (1885).

 

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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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Hippocras
Hippocratean School
Hippocrates Sleeve
Hippocrene
Hippogriff
Hippolyta
Hippolytos
Hippolytus
Hippomenes
Hippothadee
Hired Grief
Hiren
Hispania
Historicus
History
History of Croyland Abbey
Histrionic
Hit
Hit it Off (To)
Hit the Nail on the Head (To)
Hitch