/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Weather-glass (The Peasant’s)
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or “Poor man’s warning.” The scarlet pimpernel, which closes its petals at the approach of rain.
“Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel:
ʹTwill surely rain; I see with sorrow,
Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.”
Dr. Jenner.
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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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