/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Stafford
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He has had a treat in Stafford Court. He has been thoroughly cudgelled. Of course the pun is on the word staff, a stick. The French have a similar phrase—“Il a esté au festin de Martin Baston” (He has been to Jack Drum’s entertainment).
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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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