/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Nehushtan (2 Kings xviii. 4)
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Bits of brass, worthless fragments. When Hezekiah broke in pieces the brazen serpent, he called the broken pieces Nehushtan.
“Such matters to the agitators are Nehushtan.”—Nineteenth Century, December, 1892, p. 998.
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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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