Familʹiar Spirits.
“Away with him! he has a familiar under his tongue.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 7.
“Away with him! he has a familiar under his tongue.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 7.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.