/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gardener (g hard)
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Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.
Gardener. Adam is so called by Tennyson.
“From yon blue sky above us bent,
The grand old gardener and his wife [Adam and Eve]
Smile at the claims of long descent.”
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
“Thou, old Adam’s likeness,
Get to dress this garden.”
Shakespeare: Richard II., iii. 6.
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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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