E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Richard Cœur de Lion.
(See BOGIE.)
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“His tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, ‘Dost thou think King Richard is in the bush?’”—Gibbon: Decline and Fall, etc., xi. 146.
