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Pylʹades and Orestes

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Two model friends, whose names have become proverbial for friendship, like those of Damon and Pythias, David and Jonathan.

 

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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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Puss in Boots [Le Chat Botté]
Put
Put the Cart before the Horse
Put up the Shutters (To)
Putney and Mortlake Race
Putting on Frills (American)
Putting on Side
Pygmalion
Pygmies
Pylades and Orestes
Pyramid
Pyramus
Pyrocles and Musidorus
Pyrodes
Pyrrha
Pyrrhic Dance
Pyrrhic Victory (A)
Pyrrho
Pyrrhonian School (The)
Pyrrhonism