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Plain Dealer (The)

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Wycherly was so called, from his celebrated comedy of the same title. (1640–1715.)

“The Countess of Drogheda inquired for the Plain Dealer. ‘Madame,ʹ says Mr. Fairbeard, ‘since you are for the “Plain Dealer,” there he is for you,ʹ pushing Mr. Wycherly towards her.”—Cibber: Lives of the Poets, iii. p. 252.

 

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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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Pitt’s Pictures or Billy Pitt’s Pictures
Pittacus (Greek, Pittakos)
Pittance
Pixies
Pixy-led (Devonshire), Poake-ledden (Worcestershire)
Place aux Dames
Placebo
Plagiarist
Plain (The)
Plain Dealer (The)
Plan of Campaign (The)
Planets
Planet-struck
Plank (A)
Plank
Plantagenet
Plaster of Paris
Plate (A)
Platen
Plates or Plates of Meat