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(noun) - In 1797 a tax upon clocks of five shillings a year, and seven shillings sixpence on watches, was imposed by Act of Parliament. It was short-lived, being repealed in 1798 after demand for timepieces had been reduced by more than half. --Edwin Radford's Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
April 23, 2018