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My name is Short. Iʹm in a hurry and cannot wait.
“Well, but let us hear the wishes (said the old man); my name is short, and I cannot stay much longer.”—W. Yeats: Fairy Tales of the Irish Peasantry, p. 240.
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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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