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A slashing review.
“He cut it up root and branch… . He gave it what he technically styled ‘a slatingʹ; and as he threw down his pen … he muttered, ‘I think Iʹve pretty well settled that dunce’s business.”—The World, February 24th, 1892, p. 24.
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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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