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Rhiʹno

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Ready money. (See Nose.) May not this explain the phrase “paying through the nose” (par le nez), that is, paying ready rhino. Rhino = money is very old.

“Some, as I know,

Have parted with their ready rhino.”


The Seaman’s Adieu (1670).

 

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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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Reynard the Fox
Reynardine
Reynold of Montalbon
Rezio
Rhadamanthos
Rhampsinitos
Rhapsody
Rhene
Rhine or Rhineland
Rhino
Rhodalind
Rhodian Bully (The)
Rhodian Law
Rhone
Rhopalic Verse (wedgs-verse)
Rhyme
Rhymer
Rhyming to Death
Ribaldry
Ribbon Dodge (The)

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