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The eddy-water closing in with the ship’s stern, as she passes through the water. It shifts its place, but is like taking money from one pocket and putting it into another.
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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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