Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Muttons

A Stock Exchange term for the Turkish '65 loan, partly secured by the sheep-tax.

Revenons à nos moutons.
(See Moutons.)

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