Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wooden Sword

To wear the wooden sword. To keep back sales by asking too high a price. Fools used to wear wooden swords or “daggers of lath.”

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