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 Puss in Boots [Le Chat Botté],Put the Cart before the Horse. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Put.
 
A clown, a silly shallow-pate, a butt, one easily “put upon.”   1
       
“Queer country puts extol Queen Bess’s reign.”
       
Bramson.
 


 Puss in Boots [Le Chat Botté],Put the Cart before the Horse. 

 
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