Tooley Street tailor
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The "three tailors of Tooley Street" are said to have immortalized themselves by preparing a petition for Parliament bearing only their own signatures, which began, "We, the people of England..."
Noun[edit]
Tooley Street tailor (plural Tooley Street tailors)
- (UK, slang, archaic) A self-important, vainglorious person.
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary