Death. So called because he is usually drawn as a skeleton.
“Small-back must lead down the dance with us all in our time.”—Sir Walter Scott.
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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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