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In Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , Thackeray reports on Joe Sedley's drunken avowal to wed Becky Sharp the next morning, even if he had to “knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth,” in order to have him in readiness to perform the ceremony.
287), it does not mean that Thackeray “originated” the phrase.
One more adverse comment, this time for whoever wrote the jacket copy: when Bill (or anyone else) mentions that long in the tooth was “first used in print in an 1852 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray” (p.
And in Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , when Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, sought to console Amelia for Joe Sedley's jilting of her dear Rebecca, Thackeray confides (indelicately?)
For example, the Shiv Sena party leader, Bal Thackeray, told an opponent to "get circumcised" if he had so much empathy with Muslims, and informed Congress Party leaders that their dependence on Sonia Gandhi (widow of onetime Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) showed they were "impotent."