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An English perversion of “Euperʹion,” a predecessor of lucifer matches invented by Heurtner, who opened a shop in the Strand, and advertised his invention thus—

“To save your knuckles time and trouble,

Use Heurter’s Euperʹion.”

(See Prometheans, Vesuvians.)

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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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