/ · 1894 Brewer’s · H · Hugh Perry
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An English perversion of “Euperʹion,” a predecessor of lucifer matches invented by Heurtner, who opened a shop in the Strand, and advertised his invention thus—
“To save your knuckles time and trouble,
Use Heurter’s Euperʹion.”
(See Prometheans, Vesuvians.)
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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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