Crambe bis Cocta [“cabbage boiled twice”].

A subject hacked out. Juvenal says, “Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros” (vii. 155), alluding to the Greek proverb “Dis krambē thanatos.”

“There was a disadvantage in treading this Border district, for it had been already ransacked by the author himself, as well as by others; and, unless presented under a new light, was likely to afford ground to the objection of Crambe bis cocta.”—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery (Introduction).

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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.

Cracked Pipkins
Cracker
Cracknells (from the French craquelin)
Cradle-land
Craft (A)
Craft (A)
Craft
Craigmillar Castle
Crakys of War
Cram
Crambe bis Cocta [“cabbage boiled twice”]
Crambo
Crampart (King)
Cramp-ring
Crane
Crank
Crannock
Crapaud or Johnny Crapaud
Crape … . Lawn
Cravat
Craven