"The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office."
— Bridges, Thomas (b. 1710?, d. in or after 1775)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Davies
Date
1770-1
Metaphor
"The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office."
Metaphor in Context
I see by your countenance, my fair reader, that you are impatient to know what expedient it was that this miracle of patience was obliged to make use of: I will tell it you; but God forbid (as the bishop said when he was told he should sup in Heaven that night) that such a sweet creature as you should ever have occasion to try the experiment.
The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office.
Whilst they were stewing there, in order to serve up a fresh dish upon occasion, she in a gentle tone (which came as aukwardly from her as truth from an attorney) says, Come Neddy, jewel, don't be a fool, but tell me what use the diamonds were for.
(I.ix, 86-8)
The method that Mrs. Ruby-nose used to dismiss her anger, was to clap herself into an arm-chair with such a whang, that it shook the hot vapours from her brain, and sent them in a hurry down into a capacious store-room called her victualling-office.
Whilst they were stewing there, in order to serve up a fresh dish upon occasion, she in a gentle tone (which came as aukwardly from her as truth from an attorney) says, Come Neddy, jewel, don't be a fool, but tell me what use the diamonds were for.
(I.ix, 86-8)
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Provenance
Contributed by Jenny Foy
Citation
Bridges, Thomas, The Adventures of a Bank-Note, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Davies, 1770-71) <Link to ECCO>.
Date of Entry
01/20/2013
