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blarney
Marvellous stories, flattery. Ex. He deals in the wonderful, he is full of blarney. Grose derives th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney stone is a triangular stone on the very top of an ancient castle of that name in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult of access; so that to have ascended to it, was considered as a proof of perseverance, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honour, who never atchieved the adventure: and to tip the blarney, is figuratively used telling a marvellous story, or falsity; and also sometimes to express flattery. Irish.
Marvellous stories, flattery. Ex. He deals in the wonderful, he is full of blarney. Grose derives th...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.