Chapter Trade to Treasures of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Travels in the Blue A brown study; in cloudland.

“Finding him gone for `travels in the blue,' I respected his mood, and did not resent his long mutism.”- Remington Annual, 1880, p. 61.

Traveller's Licence The long bow; exaggeration.

“If the captain has not taken `traveller's licence,' we have in Norway a most successful development of peasant proprietorship.”- W. Bowerman.

Traviata An opera representing the progress of a courtesan. The libretto is borrowed from a French novel, called La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas, jun. It was dramatised for the French stage. The music of the opera is by Giuseppe Verdi.

Tre, Pol, Pen

“By their Tre, their Pol, and Pen,
Ye shall know the Cornish men.'

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   The extreme east of Cornwall is noted for Tre, the extreme west for Pol, the centre for Pen.
   On December 19th, 1891, the following residents are mentioned by the Launceston Weekly News as attending the funeral of a gentleman who lived at Tre-hummer House, Tresmere:- Residents from Trevell, Tresmarrow, Treglith, Trebarrow, Treludick, etc., with Treleaven the Mayor of Launceston.

Treacle [tree-k'l ] properly means an antidote against the bite of wild beasts (Greek, theriaka [pharmaka], from ther a wild beast). The ancients gave the name to several sorts of anti`dotes, but ultimately it was applied chiefly to Venice treacle (thériaca androchi), a compound of some sixty-four drugs in honey.
    Sir Thomas More speaks of “a most strong treacle (i.e. antidote) against these venomous heresies.” And in an old version of Jeremiah viii. 22, “balm” is translated treacle- “Is there no treacle at Gilead? Is there no phisitian there?”

Treading on One's Corns (See Corns .)

Treasures These are my treasures; meaning the sick and poor. So said St. Lawrence when the Roman praetor commanded him to deliver up his treasures. He was then condemned to be roasted alive on a gridiron (258).
   One day a lady from Campania called upon Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, and after showing her jewels, requested in return to see those belonging to the famous mother-in-law of Africanus.Cornelia sent for her two sons, and said to the lady, “These are my jewels, in which alone I delight.”