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Matter’s afoot (The)

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Is in train, is stirring. Il marche bien, it goes well; ç ira.

“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot;

Take thou what course thou wilt.”


Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.

 

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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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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
Maugrabin (Heyraddin)