Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Enfant Terrible (An) [lit., a terrible child].

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Enfant Terrible (An) [lit., a terrible child].
 
A moral or social nuisance.   1
 


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