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Lombard Fever

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Laziness. Pawnbrokers are called Lombard brokers, because they retain the three golden balls of the Lombard money-changers; and lazy folk will pawn anything rather than settle down to steady work.

 

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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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Logria
Logris, Locris
Loins
Loki
Loki’s Three Children
Lokmân
Lollards
Lollop
Lollypops
Lombard (A)
Lombard Fever
Lombard Street to a China Orange
Lombardic
London
London Bridge built on Woolpacks
London Stone
Long Chalk (A) or Long Chalks
Long Dozen (A)
Long-headed
Long Home
Long Lane