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Loophole

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A way of escape, an evasion; a corruption of “louvre holes.” (See Louvre.)

 

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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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Look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay (To)
Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Look One Way and Row Another (To)
Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles
Lookers-on
Looking Back
Looking-glass
Loom
Loony or Luny
Loophole
Loose
Loose-coat Field
Loose Fish (A)
Loose-girt Boy (The)
Loose-strife
Lorbrulgrud
Lord
Lord
Lord Burleigh
Lord Fanny