/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Son of Dripping (A)
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A man cook, a turnspit.
“Yet, son of dripping … let us halt;
Soft fires, the proverb tells us, make sweet malt.”
Peter Pindar: The Lousiad, can to ii.
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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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