Bough
61Sam Bough — (1822 1878) was a landscape painter.Born in Carlisle, he was self taught and worked as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester and Glasgow. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee to take up landscape painting he moved to Hamilton from 1852 4 and worked… …
62hang on the bough — obsolete Scottish (of a female) to remain unmarried The imagery is from unplucked and wasted fruit, although for a woman forbidden to earn her living, remaining unmarried was once less attractive than it is now: Ye impident woman! It …
63golden bough — noun : mistletoe 1a * * * Class. Myth. a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld. * * * golden bough noun (classical myth) A branch which permitted the bearer of it to visit the underworld • • •… …
64flake bough — a branch of a spruce or fir tree spread on the flake (q.v.) to allow air to circulate and help dry the fish …
65whippy bough trap — a fishing rod is bent and the fixed line attached underwater with the baited hook free. When a fish takes the bait, the attachment is released and the tension in the bent rod hooks the fish and holds it out of the water away from predators to be… …
66Golden Bough — Class. Myth. a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld. * * * …
67Frank Bough — Cockney Rhyming Slang Off …
68saw off the bough on which one is sitting — bite the hand that feeds you …
69sawed off the bough he was sitting on — bit the hand that fed him, destroyed by himself the source of his income …
70under-bough — …