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 Write Like an Angel (To).Wrong End of the Stick (You have got hold of the). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Wrong.
 
The king (or queen) can do no wrong.   1
        “It seems incredible that we should have to remind Lord Redesdale that the sovereign can do no wrong,’ simply because the sovereign can do nothing except by and with the advice and consent of the ministers of the Crown.”—The Times.
 


 Write Like an Angel (To).Wrong End of the Stick (You have got hold of the). 

 
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