Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—N

Nuts of May

Here we go gathering nuts of May. A corruption of knots or springs of May. We still speak of “love-knots,” and a bunch of flowers is called a “knot.”

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