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Lip Service

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Verbal devotion. Honouring with the lips while the heart takes no part nor lot in the matter. (See Matt. xv. 8, Isa. xxix. 13.)

 

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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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Lion’s Head
Lion’s Mouth
Lion’s Provider
Lion’s Share
Lions (The)
Lionise a Person (To)
Liosalfar
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Lip Homage
Lip Service
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Liquor up
Lir (King)
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Lisboa or Lisboa
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Lismahago (Captain)
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