Shrieking Sisterhood (The).

Women who clamour about “women’s rights.”

By Jove, I suppose my life wouldnʹt be worth a moment’s purchase if I made public these sentiments of mine at a meeting of the Shrieking Sisterhood.”—The World, 24th February, 1892, p. 25.

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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.

Short
Short Stature (Noted Men of)
Shot
Shot in the Locker
Shot Window (A)
Shotten Herring
Shoulder
Shovel-board
Show
Shrew-mouse
Shrieking Sisterhood (The)
Shrimp
Shropshire
Shrovetide Cocks
Shunamite’s House (The)
Shunt
Shut up
Shy
Shylock
Shylock (A)
Si