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Whip-dog Day

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October 18 (St. Luke’s Day). Brand tells us that a priest about to celebrate mass on St. Luke’s Day, happened to drop the pyx, which was snatched up by a dog, and this was the origin of Whip-dog Day. (Popular Antiquities, ii. 273.)

 

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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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Wheel
Wheel of Fortune (The)
Whelps
Whetstone
Whetstone of Witte (The)
Whig
Whiggism
Whip (A)
Whip
Whip-dog Day
Whip with Six Strings (The)
Whipping Boy
Whiskers
Whisky
Whisky-drinker
Whist
Whistle (noun)
Whistle (verb)
Whistle Down the Wind (To)
Whistle for the Wind