Corn … Horn.

Up corn, down horn. When corn is high or dear, beef is down or cheap, because persons have less money to spend on meat.

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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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Corinthian (A)
Corinthian Brass
Corinthian Order
Corinthian Tom
Corinthian War (The)
Corked
Corker or Calker
Corking-pins
Cormoran
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Corn in Egypt (There’s)
Corn-Law Rhymer
Cornstalks
Corns
Cornage
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Corneille dEsope (La)
Corner (A)
Corner
Corner (The)