Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pleasure

It was Xerxes who offered a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure,

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Plebeians
Pleased as Punch
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