Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Gall and Wormwood

Extremely disagreeable and annoying.

“It was so much gall and wormwood to the family.” —Mrs.E. Lynn Linton.

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