Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

High Heels

and Low Heels. The High and Low Church party. The names of two factions in Swift's tale of Lilliput. (Gulliver's Travels.)

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