/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Itch
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My fingers itch to be at him. This is a French locution, “Les poings me démangent de le battre.”
An itch for gold. A longing desire. (Anglo-Saxon, giccan, to itch.)
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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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