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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Cock-a-Hoop |
| And having routed the whole troop, With victory was cock-a-hoop. Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 13. | 1 |
| You’ll make a mutiny among my guests! You will set cock-a-hoop! you’ll be the man! Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5. (Capulet to Tybalt.) The origin of this phrase is very doubtful. See Knight’s Shakespeare. | 2 |
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