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Ray, in his Collection of Proverbs, has the following couplet:—
“The little Smith of Nottingham,
Who doth the work that no man can.”
Applied to conceited persons who imagine that no one is able to compete with themselves.
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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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