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Wrong

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The king (or queen) can do no wrong.

“It seems incredible that we should have to remind Lord Redesdale that the sovereign can do no wrong,ʹ simply because the sovereign can do nothing except by and with the advice and consent of the ministers of the Crown.”—The Times.

 

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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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Worth
Worthies (The Nine)
Wound
Wraith
Wrangler
Wrath’s Hole (Cornwall)
Wraxen
Wright of Norwich
Write
Write Like an Angel (To)
Wrong
Wrong End of the Stick (You have got hold of the)
Wrong Side of the Blanket (The)
Wrong Side of the Cloth (That is the)
Wrong Sow by the Ear (You have the)
Wrongun (A)
Wroth Money or Wroth Silver
Wulstan (St.)
Wunderberg
Wyn-monath [Wine-month]
Wynd
X