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The French have a remarkable locution respecting fish as a food:
“A près poisson, lait est poison;
A près poisson, le vin est bon;
A près poisson, noix est contre-poison.”
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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.