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Tongue of the Trump (The)

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The spokesman or leader of a party. The trump means a Jew’s harp, which is vocalised by the tongue.

“The tongue of the trump to them a.”


Burns.

 

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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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