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GOOD WINE NEEDS NO BUSH

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Good Wine needs no Bush It was customary to hang out ivy, boughs of trees, flowers, etc., at public houses to notify to travellers that "good cheer" might be had within.
"Some ale-houses upon the road I saw,
And some with bushes showing they wine did draw." Poor Robin's Perambulations (1678). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GOOD WINE NEEDS NO BUSH

Language Translations for "GOOD WINE NEEDS NO BUSH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

calul bun se vinde din grajd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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