“As fair as Lady Done.”
The wife of Sir John Done, hereditary bow-bearer of Delamere Forest. Pennant, in his “Tour from Chester to London,” says that “when a Cheshireman would express supereminent excellency in one of the fair sex, he will say, ‘There is a Lady Done for you.’”
“Higgledy Piggledy—Malpas shot.”
All share alike.
The well-known anecdote need not be quoted.
“All on one side, like Parkgate.”
A single street with one side only, the river being on the other side.
“Every man was not born to be Vicar of Bowdon.”
One of the most valuable livings in Cheshire.
“To pull Lymm from Warburton.”