Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Thrums

Weaver's ends and fagends of carpet, used for common rugs. (The word is common to many languages, as Icelandic, thraum; German, trumm; Dutch, drom; Greek, thrumma; all meaning “fag-ends” or “fragments.”)

Come, sisters, come, cut thread and thrum;
Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!

Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream. v. 1.

Thread and thrum.
Everything, good and bad together.

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