caution to snakes
English
Noun
caution to snakes (plural cautions to snakes)
- (slang, archaic) Something bizarre or astonishing.
- 1878, Fun (volumes 27-28, page 11)
- I am crammed full of faults, I'm a mass of mistakes / So stupid, in fact, that you'd deem me half-witted; / But though in my way I'm a "caution to snakes," / I think I'm a party who ought to be pitied.
- 1878, Fun (volumes 27-28, page 11)