PRICK THE GARTER

Domain	Definition
Literature	Prick the Garter (See Fast And Loose .) "Why, who cries out on pride [dress] That can therein tax any private party? What woman in the city do I name When that I say `the city woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders'? ... What is he of baser function That says his bravery [finery] is not of my cost?" Shakespeare: As You Like It, ii. 7. Fly pride, says the peacock, proverbial for pride. (Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, iv. 3.) The pot calling the kettle "black face." Sir Pride. First a drayman, then a colonel in the Parliamentary army. (Butler: Hudibras. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: PRICK THE GARTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-k-p-r-r-r-t-t"
	-5 letters: charterer, chatterer, cigarette, crepitate, preachier, racketier, ragpicker, recharger, recharter, trierarch.
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