Over Edom will I cast my Shoe (Psalm lx. 8; cviii. 9).

Will I march. “Over Edom will I cast my shoe, over Philistia will I triumph.”

“Every member of the Travellersʹ Club who could pretend to have cast his shoe over Edom, was constituted a lawful critic.”—Sir W. Scott: The Talisman (Introduction).

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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.

Out of the Wood
Outis (Greek, nobody)
Outrigger
Outrun the Constable
Outworks
Ouzel
Ovation
Over
Over
Over and Over Again
Over Edom will I cast my Shoe (Psalm lx. 8; cviii. 9)
Over the Left
Overdo (Justice)
Overreach (Sir Giles)
Overture
Overy
Ovid
Owain (Sir)
Owen Meredith
Owl
Owl