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Matter-of-fact

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Unvarnished truth, prosaic, unimaginative. Whyte Melville speaks of a “matter-of-fact swain.”

 

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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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Matamore
Mate
Maté
Materialism
Matfellon
Mathew (Father)
Math isen
Mathurin (St.)
Matilda
Matriculate
Matter-of-fact
Matter’s afoot (The)
Matterhorn
Matthew (St.)
Matthew Bramble
Matthew Parker’s Bible
Matthews Bible
Matthias (St.)
Maudlin
Maugis
Maugis dAygremont