Lombard Street to a China Orange.

Long odds. Lombard Street, London, is the centre of great banking and mercantile transactions. To stake the Bank of England against a common orange is to stake what is of untold value against a mere trifle.

“‘It is Lombard Street to a China orange,ʹ quoth Uncle Jack.”—Bulwer Lytton: The Caxtons.

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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.

Logris, Locris
Loins
Loki
Loki’s Three Children
Lokmân
Lollards
Lollop
Lollypops
Lombard (A)
Lombard Fever
Lombard Street to a China Orange
Lombardic
London
London Bridge built on Woolpacks
London Stone
Long Chalk (A) or Long Chalks
Long Dozen (A)
Long-headed
Long Home
Long Lane
Long Meg of Westminster