/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Cashier
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To dismiss an officer from the army, to discard from society. (French, casser, to break; Italian, cassa’rë, to blot out; Ger. kassiren.)
“The ruling rogue, who dreads to be cashiered,
Contrives, as he is hated, to be feared.”
Swift: Epistle to Mr. Gay, line 137.
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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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