Brewer's: St. Lundi

(La). St. Monday. Monday spent by workmen in idleness. One of the rules enjoined by the Sheffield unionists was that no work should be permitted to be done on a Monday by any of their members.

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