Brewer's: Shrieking Sisterhood

(The). Women who clamour about “women's rights.”

“By Jove, I suppose my life wouldn't be worth a moment's purchase if I made public these sentiments of mine at a meeting of the Shrieking Sisterhood.” —The World, 24th February, 1892, p. 25.

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