Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Coach-and-four (or Coach-and-six).

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Coach (A).

Coach-and-pair (A).

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

Coach-and-four (or Coach-and-six).

It is said one may drive a coach-and-four through an Act of Parliament, i.e. lawyers can always find for their clients some loophole of escape.

“It is easy to drive a coach-and-four through wills, and settlements, and legal things.”—H. R. Haggard.

“[Rice] was often heard to say … that he would drive a coach and six horses through the Act of Settlement.”—Welwood.

Coach (A).

Coach-and-pair (A).

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