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Literature | Stewing in their own Gravy Especially applied to a besieged city. The besiegers may leave the hostile city to suffer from want of food, loss of commerce, confinement, and so on. The phrase is very old, borrowed perhaps from the Bible, "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk." Chaucer says- "In his own gress I made him frie, For anger and for verry jalousie." Prologue to the Wife of Bathes Tale. We are told that the Russian ambassador, when Louis Philippe fortified Paris, remarked, if ever again Paris is in insurrection, it "can be made to stew in its own gravy (jus)"; and Bismarck, at the siege of Paris, in 1871, said, the Germans intend to leave the city "to seethe in its own milk."- See Snell: Chronicles of Twyford, p. 295. "He relieved us out of our purgatory ... after we had been stewing in our own gravy."- The London Spy, 1716. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 45 57 49 4E 47 49 4E 54 48 45 49 52 4F 57 4E 47 52 41 56 59 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000101 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 01001001 01010010 00100000 01001111 01010111 01001110 00100000 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T E W I N G   I N   T H E I R   O W N   G R A V Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0045 0057 0049 004E 0047 0049 004E 0054 0048 0045 0049 0052 004F 0057 004E 0047 0052 0041 0056 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535439574348412434825442394352249574824152355659 |
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