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Touch

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To keep touchfaith, fidelity. The allusion is to “touching” gold and other metals on a touchstone to prove them. Shakespeare speaks of “friends of noble touch” (proof).

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“And trust me on my truth,

If thou keep touch with me,

My dearest friend, as my own heart,

Thou shalt right welcome be.”


 

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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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Torricelli
Torso
Tortoise which Supports the Earth (The)
Torture
Tory
Totem Pole (A)
Totemism
Toto Cœlo
Totus Teres atque Rotundus
Touch
Touch
Touch At (To)
Touch Bottom (To)
Touch Up (To)
Touch and Go (A)
Touchet
Touchstones
Touchy
Tour
Tour de Force
Tourlourou