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Pepper

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To pepper one well. To give one a good basting or thrashing.

To take pepper iʹ the nose. To take offence. The French have a similar locution, “La moutarde lui monte au nez.”

“Take you pepper in your nose, you mar our sport.”—The Spanish Gipsy, iv. 190.

 

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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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