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Sucking Young Patricians

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The younger sons of the aristocracy, who sponge on those in power to get places of profit and employment.

 

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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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Subsidy
Substitution of Service (The)
Subtle Doctor
Subvolvans or Subvolvani
Succession Powder
Succinct
Succoth
Suck the Monkey
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Suckle
Sucre
Suds (Mrs.)
Suffolk
Suffrage
Sugar-candy
Sugar-lip
Sugar and Honey
Sugared Words
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