Brewer's: Spanish Money

Fair words and compliments. The Spanish government is a model of dishonest dealings, the byword of the commercial world, yet no man is more irate than a Spaniard if any imputation is laid to his charge as inconsistent with the character of a man of honour.

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