/ · 1894 Brewer’s · K · Kitchenmaid (Mrs.)
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So Queen Elizabeth called Lord Mountjoy, her lord-deputy in Ireland. In one of her letters to Lord Mountjoy she writes:—
“With your frying-pan and other kitchen-stuff you have brought to their last home more rebels than those that promised more and did less.”
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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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