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To sit at the stern; At the stern of public affairs. Having the management of public affairs. The stern is the steer-ern—i.e. steer-place; and to sit at the stern is “to sit at the helm.”
“Sit at chiefest stern of public weal.”
Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., i. 1.
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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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