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Screw (A), meaning a small quantity, is in allusion to the habit of putting a small quantity of small articles
into a screw of paper. `Has Tom got his screw raised?' said Milton.- Truth: QueerScrew Loose (A). Something amiss. The allusion is to joinery kept together by screws. Screw Plot (The). 1708, when Queen Anne went to St. Paul's to offer thanksgivings for the victory of
Oudenarde. The tale is that the plotters took out certain screw-bolts from the beams of the cathedral,
that the roof might fall on the queen and her suite and kill them. `Some of your Machiavelian crew |
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