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Pasch Eggs (pron. Pask)

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Easter eggs, given as an emblem of the resurrection. They are generally coloured. Not unfrequently a name written with grease, which does not absorb the colouring matter, causes a pasch egg to appear with a name on it.

Donner un œuf, pour avoir un bœuf. Giving a sprat to catch a mackerel. To give an egg at Easter under the expeetation of receiving a more substantial present later on.

 

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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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