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Son of Dripping (A)

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A man cook, a turnspit.

“Yet, son of dripping … let us halt;

Soft fires, the proverb tells us, make sweet malt.”


Peter Pindar: The Lousiad, can to ii.

 

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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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Solyman
Soma
Somagia (singular somagium)
Sombrero
Somerset
Somerset or Somersault
Somerset House
Somoreen
Son (or descendant of)
Son of Belial
Son of Dripping (A)
Son of One Year
Son of Perdition
Son of the Morning
Son of the Star [Bar Cochal]
Sons of God
Sons of the Band
Sons of the Mighty
Sons of the Prophets
Sons of the Sorceress
Song