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Common Expressions: BLATANT BEAST

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Blatant BeastBlatant Beast was Edmund Spenser's name for the ignorant, slanderous, clamour of the mob. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: BLATANT BEAST

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Blatant BeastLiterature(The). "A dreadful fiend of gods and men, ydrad," type of "Common Rumour" or "Slander." He has 100 tongues and a sting; with his tongues he speaks things "most shameful, most unrighteous, most untrue;" and with his sting "steeps them in poison." Sir Calidore muzzled the monster, and drew him with a chain to Faerie Land. After a time the beast broke his chain and regained his liberty. (Saxon, blaeton, to bellow.) (Spenser: Faerie Queene, books v. vi.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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