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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Hired Grief.
 
Mutes and other undertakers’ employees at funerals. The Under-sheriff Layton, in his will, desired that he might be “buried without hired grief” (1885).   1
 


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