Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lizard

(The). Supposed, at one time, to be venomous, and hence a “lizard's leg” was an ingredient of the witch's cauldron in Macbeth.

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