Definitions
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- noun A (often
fatuous )proverb attributed tospeaker in asituation
Etymologies
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From the character name Sam Weller in Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836) + -ism.
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Examples
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He was a humorist, not without boyish delight in a good Sam-Wellerism, and so could be amused with the
The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911
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He was a humorist, not without boyish delight in a good Sam-Wellerism, and so could be amused with the
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My father's favorite Wellerism is "'We'll have to rehearse that,' said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car."
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My father's favorite Wellerism is "'We'll have to rehearse that,' said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car."
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