/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Good Wine needs no Bush
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It was customary to hang out ivy, boughs of trees, flowers, etc., at public houses to notify to travellers that “good cheer” might be had within.
“Some ale-houses upon the road I saw,
And some with bushes showing they wine did draw.”
Poor Robin’s Perambulations (1678).
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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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