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jhharlan
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Etymology[edit]
- from the proverb "After the Lord Mayor's show comes the dust-cart" (or "donkey-cart", or "s**t-cart"). Bringing up the rear of the Lord Mayor's Show is a team to clean the manure of the pageant's horses.
<dl><dd>1864 George Waters, Indian gleanings and thoughts of the past p.154 (G.H. Windeyer, Chatham):
- as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that "after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,"
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Phrase[edit]
- (idiomatic) Said of a disappointing or mundane event occurring straight after an exciting, magnificent, or triumphal event. []
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| 11 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Yes the dung cart,Julie,
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