“He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.”
Original source
The Whistle (November, 1779); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
The Whistle (November, 1779); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
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