fire-new

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

New from the forge; brand-new.--Johnson. This old and nearly obsolete expression is sometimes used by us.


You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into darkness.--Shakspeare, Twelfih Night, III. 2.

The Democracy of Washington, both in and out of Congress, huzzaed, sang, flaunted torches, held mass-meetings, to exult over the liberation of the French; they virtually insisted that this was all their thunder, and that Whigs had no business to participate in their rejoicings; but when the liberaton of Americans from a much severer and more abject bondage came under consideration, they were and are ferocious for the punishment, by law or violence, not of the enslavers, but of the liberators! Instantly they are seized with a fire-new reverence for the Constitution and laws!--as if the French Revolution had not been effected in defiance of the constituted authorities--as if the serfs of Metternich and Esterhazy were not as rightfully and truly theirs as those of Calhoun, Hope Slatter, and Mrs. M---.--N. Y. Tribune, April 25th, 1848.

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