Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Ganabim

The island of thieves and plagiarists. So called from the Hebrew ganab (a thief). (Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 66.)

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