Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Corn-Law Rhymer

Ebenezer Elliot, who wrote philippics against the corn laws (1781-1849).

“Is not the corn-law rhymer already a king?” —Carlyle.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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