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 Har’icot Mutton.Hark Back (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Harkr. [Happy despatch.]
 
A method of enforcing suicide by disembowelling among Japanese officials when government considered them worthy of death.   1
 


 Har’icot Mutton.Hark Back (To). 

 
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