“He stands like Mumphazard, who was hanged for saying nothing.”
“Like the parson of Saddleworth who could read no book but his own.”
“Roint you witch! as Bessy Locket said to her mother.”
“No more sib (akin) than sieve and riddle that grew in a wood together.”
“If he were as long as a lither, he might thatch a house without a ladder.”
“It would make a dog doff his doublet.”
“She hath broken her elbow at the Church door.”
A woman grown idle after marriage.
“Score twice before you cut once.”
Used by curriers. Holmes’ “Academie of Armourie.”