barrow man »
A man under sentence of transportation; alluding to the convicts at Woolwich, who are principally employed in wheeling barrows full of brick or dirt.
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dye in the wool »
To dye woolen fibers before they are spun into thread.
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dyed in the wool »
Simple past tense and past participle of dye in the wool.
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dyed-in-the-wool »
Dyed before being formed into cloth.
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dyed-in-the-wool »
Firmly established in a person's beliefs or habits; deeply ingrained in the nature of a person or thing.
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more cry than wool »
Asserted but not grounded in reality.
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