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Servants wishing to be hired used to go into the market-place of Carlisle (Carel) with a straw in their mouth. (See Mop.)

At Carel I stuid wiʹa strae i my mouth,

The wey ves com rounʹ me in custers;

What weage dus teax, canny lad?ʹ says yen.”


Anderson: Cumberland Ballads.

 

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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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Strain
Stralenheim (Count of)
Strand (London)
Strange
Stranger of the Gate (The)
Strangers Sacrificed
Strap Oil
Strappado
Strasburg Goose (A)
Stratagem means generalship
Straw
Straw
Strawberry
Strawberry Preachers
Streak of Silver (The)
Street and Walker (Messrs.)
Stretcher
Strike (A)
Strike
Strike Amain
Strike a Bargain (To)

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