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 Gamps and Harrises.Gander (g hard). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Gan’abim.
 
The island of thieves and plagiarists. So called from the Hebrew ganab (a thief). (Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 66.)   1
 


 Gamps and Harrises.Gander (g hard). 

 
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