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Knife and Fork

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He is a capital knife-and-fork, a good trencherman.

“He did due honour to the repast; he ate and drank, and proved a capital knife-and-fork even at the risk of dying the same night of an indigestion.”—Gaboriau: Promise of Marriage, vi.

 

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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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Knave of Hearts (A)
Knave of Sologne (A)
Knee
Knee Tribute
Kneph
Knickerbocker (Diedrich)
Knickerbockers
Knife
Knife
Knife and Fork
Knifeboard
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Knight of the Bleeding Heart
Knight of the Cloak (The)
Knight of the Couching Leopard (The)
Knight of the Order of John-William (A)
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