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)
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A self-important, vainglorious person.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary