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Tumbledown Dick

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Anything that will not stand firmly. Dick is Richard, the Protector’s son, who was but a tottering wall at best.

 

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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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Tuffet (A)
Tuft
Tuft-hunter
Tug
Tug of War (The)
Tuileries (Paris) [tile-kilns]
Tulcan Bishops
Tulip
Tulip Mania
Tumbledown Dick
Tun
Tunding
Tune the Old Cow Died of (The)
Tuneful Nine
Tuning Goose
Tunisian
Tunkers
Turcaret
Tureen
Turf (The)