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Old Rowley

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Charles II. was so called from his favourite racehorse. A portion of the Newmarket racecourse is still called Rowley Mile, from the same horse.

 

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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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Old Hands
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Old Mortality
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Old Noll’s Fiddler
Old Port School
Old Reeky
Old Rowley
Old Salt (An)
Old Scratch
Old Song
Old Style—New Style
Old Tom
Old Women
Old World
Old as Adam
Old as Methuselah
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