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Wag Beards (To)

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“ʹTis merry in hall when beards wag all”—i.e. when feasting goes on.

“Then was the minstrel’s harp with rapture heard;

The song of ancient days gave huge delight;

With pleasure too did wag the minstrel’s beard,

For Plenty courted him to drink and bite.”


 

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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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Wabun
Wabung Annung
Wade
Wade’s Boat
Wadham College (Oxford)
Wadman (Widow)
Wag Beards (To)
Wages
Wages of Sin (The)
Wagoner
Wahabites
Waifs and Strays
Waistcoat
Waiters upon Providence
Waits
Wake
“Waking a Witch.”