Tailors cowards as warriors: go home to their needles. (Cf. W121.)

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Tailors cowards as warriors: go home to their needles. (Cf. W121.)

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with tradesmen. · Jokes about tailors. · view the constellation · filed as X223

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Jokes about tailors. (Cf. P441.)

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Oversight of the thievish tailor. Sews the stolen piece of cloth on the outside of his coat, thinking that it is on the inside Tailor always associated with goat

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Cowardice

wander