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Dictionary definition: A CHERRY year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year
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A CHERRY year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year
1678 J. Ray
English Proverbs
(ed. 2) 52
A cherry year a merry year: A plum year a dumb year. This is a puerile and senceless rythme‥as far as I can see.
1869 R. Inwards
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Dictionary definition: year
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;
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... ... prayers; a Requiem Mass held on such an anniversary; the term is recorded from the 11th century. See also a cherry year, a merry year , donkeys' years at donkey , locust years , next year in Jerusalem .
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