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The largest share. The allusion is to the banquet given by Joseph, viceroy of Egypt, to his brethren. “Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs” (Gen. xliii. 34).
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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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