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Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
To give importance to trifling matters.
To give importance to trifling matters.
With tooth and nail.
With tooth and nail.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
To grow a philosopher's beard.
To grow a philosopher's beard.
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil
facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]
