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Tib and Tom

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Tib is the ace of trumps, and Tom is the knave of trumps in the game of Gleek.

That gamester needs must overcome,

That can play both Tib and Tom.”


Randolph: Hermaphrodite, p. 640.

 

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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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Tib
Tib and Tom
Tiber
Tibullus
Tiburce (3 syl.) or Tiburce
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Tick
Ticket
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Tickle the Public (To)
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