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Needham

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You are on the high-roaà to Needham—to ruin or poverty. The pun is on the word need. Needham is in Suffolk. (See Land of Nod.)

 

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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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Neck or Nothing
Necked
Necklace
Necromancy
Nectar
Neddy (a man’s name)
Need Makes the old Wife Trot
Needs must when the Devil Drives
Needfire
Needful (The)
Needham
Needle
Negative Pregnant (A)
Negro
Negro Offspring
Negroni
Negus
Nehallenia
Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)
Neiges dAntan (The)
Neken

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