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| − | * '''If only you’d come out [in the 1916 Rising] with knives and forks:''' Eamonn De Valera | + | * '''If only you’d come out [in the 1916 Rising] with knives and forks:''' Eamonn De Valera, criticizing the citizenry of Dublin for not supporting the rising |
* '''to put down one’s knife and fork:''' (''slang'') to die | * '''to put down one’s knife and fork:''' (''slang'') to die | ||
Latest revision as of 05:58, 18 December 2006
- knife and fork
- If only you’d come out [in the 1916 Rising] with knives and forks: Eamonn De Valera, criticizing the citizenry of Dublin for not supporting the rising
- to put down one’s knife and fork: (slang) to die
- pike: the principal weapon of the United Irishmen during the 1797 rebellion, whence the rebels are sometimes referred to as "the pikemen of '97"
- pike: a species of fish, also known as luce → Lucia Joyce
- pike: a turnpike → there was one in Chapelizod in the 19th Century → FW 003.22: upturnpikepointandplace
- fork: a junction where a road divides in two → there is one in Chapelizod outside the Mullingar Inn
