/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Retort Courteous (The)
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Sir, I am not of your opinion; I beg to differ from you; or, to use Touchstone’s illustration, “If I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was.” The lie seven times removed; or rather, the lie direct in the seventh degree.
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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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