Dr. Johnson used to say that he never got as much wall fruit as he could eat.
The Dative Case after the Adjective.
Adjectives by which advantage, disadvantage, likeness, unlikeness, pleasure, submission, or relation to any thing is signified, require a dative case; as
Astaci incocti patriæ idonei sunt in pace; cocti autem in bello.
Raw lobsters are serviceable to their country in peace; but boiled ones in war. Lobster’s claws are nasty things to get into.
The Corporation of London seemed very much afraid of the Police clause.
One of the reasons why a soldier is sometimes called a lobster, probably is, that the latter is a marine animal.
Balænæ persimile:
Very like a whale.