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Literature | Devil among the Tailors (The). On Dowton's benefit at the Haymarket, some 7,000 journeymen tailors congregated in and around the theatre to prevent a burlesque called The Tailors: a Tragedy for Warm Weather, which they considered insulting to the trade. Fairburn's edition of this play is headed The Devil among the Tailors, and contains an account of this fracas. (See also Biographia Dramatica, article TAILORS.) There is a Scotch reel so called. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Expression using "DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS": the devil among the tailors. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, rattle, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar). (various references) | |
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