E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Over Edom will I cast my Shoe (Psalm lx. 8; cviii. 9).
Will I march. “Over Edom will I cast my shoe, over Philistia will I triumph.”
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“Every member of the Travellers’ Club who could pretend to have cast his shoe over Edom, was constituted a lawful critic.”—Sir W. Scott: The Talisman (Introduction).
