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 Soi-disant (French).Soil the Milk before Using It. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Soil.
 
To take soil. A hunting term, signifying that the deer has taken to the water. Soil, in French, is the mire in which a wild boar wallows. (Danish, söl, mire; Swedish, söla, to wallow.)   1
       
“Fida went downe the dale to seeke the hinde,
And founde her taking soyle within a flood.”
       
Browne: Britannia’s Pastorals, i. 84
 


 Soi-disant (French).Soil the Milk before Using It. 

 
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