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Housekeeping.
To lie at rack and manger. To live at reckless expense.
“When Virtue was a country maide,
And had no skill to set up trade,
She came up with a carrier’s jade,
And lay at rack and manger.”
Life of Robin Goodfellow. (1628.)
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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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