Dagger Ale

is the ale of the Dagger; a celebrated ordinary in Holborn.        

“My lawyer’s clerk I lighted on last night

In Holborn, at the Dagger.”

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Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, i. 1.

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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.

Dabble
Dabchick
Dactyl (Will)
Dactyls (The)
Dad or Daddy
Daddy Long-legs
Dædalos
Daffodil (The)
Dag (day)
Dagger
Dagger Ale
Dagger-scene in the House of Commons
Daggers
Daggers Drawn (At)
Daggle-tail or Draggle-tail
Dagobert
Dagon (Hebrew, Jag On, the fish On)
Dagonet (Sir)
Daguerreotype
Dagun
Dahak