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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Leslie de Vaux

Merit, like the show inside the circus, is of comparatively little use as drawing card; it is the bluff and buncombe, the banging drum and megaphone of the barker, which is the successful magnet.