caution to snakes

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Noun

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caution to snakes (plural cautions to snakes)

  1. (slang, archaic) Something bizarre or astonishing.
    • 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 11:
      I am crammed full of faults, I'm a mass of mistakes / So stupid, in fact, that you'd deem me half-witted; / But though in my way I'm a "caution to snakes," / I think I'm a party who ought to be pitied.
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