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Specialty Expressions: HIP AND THIGH

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Hip and ThighLiterature1: "And be smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter." - Judges xv. 8.
2: To smite hip and thigh. To slay with great carnage. A Hebrew phrase. (German, Arm and bein.)
3: Perhaps there may be some reference to the superstition about the ossacrum (q.v.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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