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Twist (Oliver)

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A boy born in a workhouse, starved and ill-treated; but always gentle, amiable, and pureminded. Dickens’s novel so called.

 

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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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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Twelfth (The)
Twelfth Cake
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Twelve
Twelve Tables
Twickenham
Twig
Twinkling
Twins
Twist (Oliver)
Twisting the Lion’s Tail
Twitcher
Twitten
Two
Two Eyes of Greece
Two Fridays
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Strings to his Bow (He has)
Two of a Trade never agree
Twopenny Dam (A)