TAILOR

Related Subjects: Dress, Needle

1. Sister, look ye,
   How, by a new creation of my tailor's
   I've shook off old mortality.—JOHN FORD, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
   

2. Be sure your tailor is a man of sense.—O. W. HOLMES, A Rhymed Lesson
   

3. What a fine man
   Hath your tailor made you!—MASSINGER, City Madam
   

4. As if thou e'er wert angry
   But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred
   Can bring more to the making of a man,
   Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;
   And did he not, each morning, new create thee,
   Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.—MASSINGER, Fatal Dowry
   

5. Get me some French tailor
   To new-create you!—MASSINGER, Renegade
   

6. Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey;
   That suit an unpaid tailor snatch'd away.—POPE, The Dunciad
   

7. Thy gown? why, ay;—come, tailor, let us see't
   O mercy God! what masquing stuff is here?
   What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:
   What, up and down, carv'd like an apple-tart?
   Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash
   Like to a censer in a barber's shop:
   Why, what i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this!—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew