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 Tire’sias.Tirled. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Tiring Irons.
 
Iron rings to be put on or taken off a ring as a puzzle. Lightfoot calls them “tiring irons never to be untied.”   1
 


 Tire’sias.Tirled. 

 
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