The grand old gardener
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Grand old gardener: from Tennyson, "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" (1842): "The grand old gardener and his Wife smile at the claims of long descent", later changed to "the gardener Adam". Reference to the Garden of Eden, start of a race.
- Cincinattus: Cincinnatus remained a farmer even after temporarily assuming dictatorship of Rome.
- Grand Old Man: an epithet applied to Gladstone by his supporters
