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There it stands, solitary and alone -- not a council-of-ten flues, but, like his sacred majesty of Russia, a unit of an autocrat.
I and My Chimney 1856
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(noun) - (1) The toes of a man who turns his feet inward. --John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887 (2) The toes of a man who walks duck-footed. --John Farmer's and W.E. Henley's Slang and Its Analogues, 1890-1904
February 9, 2018