TO CATCH or CAPTURE A CANCER, phr. (common).—See CRAB.
1857. TOM HOOD, Pen and Pencil Pictures, p. 141. He had another way of ‘CAPTURING CANCERS,’ namely, by never putting his oar into the water at all.
TO CATCH or CAPTURE A CANCER, phr. (common).—See CRAB.
1857. TOM HOOD, Pen and Pencil Pictures, p. 141. He had another way of ‘CAPTURING CANCERS,’ namely, by never putting his oar into the water at all.
