Bubble and Squeak.

Cold boiled meat and greens fried. They first bubbled in water when boiled, and afterwards hissed or squeaked in the frying-pan.

Something pretentious, but of no real value, such as “rank and title,” or a bit of ribbon in one’s button hole.

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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.

Brute (Sir John)
Brute or Brutus
Brutum Fulmen (Latin)
Brutus (Junius)
Brutus (Marcus)
Bruxellois
Brydport Dagger
Bub
Bubastis
Bubble (A)
Bubble and Squeak
Bucca
Buccaneer
Bucentaur
Bucephalos [bull-headed]
Buchanites
Buck
Buck-basket
Buck-bean
Buck-rider (A)
Buck-tooth