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One no longer in office.
“I am left out; for me nothing remains.
But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office”
Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., i. 1.
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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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