E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Knife and Fork.
He is a capital knife-and-fork, a good trencherman.
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“He did due honour to the repast; he ate and drank, and proved a capital knife-and-fork even at the risk of dying the same night of an indigestion.”—Gaboriau: Promise of Marriage, vi.
