Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Give the Boys a Holiday

Anaxagoras, on his death-bed, being asked what honour should be conferred upon him, replied, “Give the boys a holiday.”

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