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Specialty Expressions: BLENHEIM STEPS

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Blenheim StepsLiterature1: And made a snatch at me;
2: The cock it crows- I must be gone-
3: "The body-snatchers, they have come,
4: Won't let a body be.
5: Sir Astley has my heart."
6: My William, we must part;
7: Hood: Mary's Ghost.
8: But I'll be yours in death although
9: Once noted for an anatomical school, over which Sir Astley Cooper presided. Here "resurrectionists" were sure to find a ready mart for their gruesome wares, for which they received sums of money varying from 10, and sometimes more. Such phrases as "going to Blenheim Steps," meant going to be dissected, or unearthed from one's grave.
10: `Tis very hard them kind of men. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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