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Rif of Rifie (French)

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Avoir rifle et rafle. To have everything. Also, the negative, Nʹavoir ni rif ni raf (to have nothing).

“Hélas! jʹai goute miseraigne,

Jʹai rifle et rafle, et roigne et taigne.”

Les Miracles de Ste. Geneviève.

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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.