Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Hired Grief.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.


Hired Grief.

Mutes and other undertakers’ employees at funerals. The Under-sheriff Layton, in his will, desired that he might be “buried without hired grief” (1885).	1

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