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Brewer's: Drummond Light
The limelight. So named from Captain Thomas Drummond, R.E.
“Wisdom thinks, and makes a solar Drummond Light of a point of dull lime.” —Geikie: Entering on Life (Reading, p.211).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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