Claw-backs.
Flatterers. Bishop Jewel speaks of “the Pope’s clawbacks.” (See above, and Clapperclaws.)
Flatterers. Bishop Jewel speaks of “the Pope’s clawbacks.” (See above, and Clapperclaws.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.