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Retort Courteous (The)

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Sir, I am not of your opinion; I beg to differ from you; or, to use Touchstone’s illustration, “If I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was.” The lie seven times removed; or rather, the lie direct in the seventh degree.

 

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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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Republican Queen
Republicans
Resolute (The)
Rest (The)
Rest on One’s Oars
Restive
Restorationists
Resurrection Men
Resurrection Pie
Retiarius
Retort Courteous (The)
Reuben Dixon
Reveillé [re-vay-ya]
Revenons à nos Moutons
Reverend
Revetments
Review
Revise
Revival of Letters in England
Revival of Painting and Sculpture
Revoke