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单词 Tooley Street tailor
释义

Tooley Street tailor

English

Etymology

The "three tailors of Tooley Street" are said to have immortalized themselves by preparing a petition for Parliament bearing only their own signatures, which began, "We, the people of England..."

Noun

Tooley Street tailor (plural Tooley Street tailors)

  1. (Britain, slang, archaic) A self-important, vainglorious person.

References

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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