FEATHER IN HIS CAP.
The popular phrase '' a feather in his cap" has gruesome associations.. It comes down from the sixteenth century, when it appears in a contemporary account of life in Hungary. Every Hungarian who had killed a Turk waa entitled to wear a feather in his cap. The number of feathers a man wore, there* fore, was an indication of his prowess as a slaughterer of Turks, for none dare flaunt a feather who hadi not achieved this end! "Piping hot** is a relic of the ancient custom of a baker blowing his pipe in the village street as a signal to his customers that his bread was at that moment hot from the oven. The baker wu evidently an unpopular member of the community in those far-off days for in the minds of the superstitious he was eynonmous with the devil! ■
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Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 March 1930, Page 12
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144FEATHER IN HIS CAP. Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 March 1930, Page 12
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