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“I am going to the balmy”—i.e. to “Balmy sleep;” one of Dick Swiveller’s pet phrases. (Dickens: Old Curiosity Shop.)
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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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