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man in the moon

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man in the moon
n
1. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) the moon when considered to resemble the face of a man
2. (Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) (in folklore and nursery rhyme) a character dwelling in the moon


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But it was a liar with its pregnancy; and sooner will I believe in the man in the moon than in the woman.
Mind what I say--he has given his friends the slip, and persuaded this delicate young creetur all along of her fondness for him to be his guide and travelling companion--where to, he knows no more than the man in the moon.
1605, and when we read the description of the scenery it makes us wonder and smile too at the remembrance of Wall and the Man in the Moon of which Shakespeare made such fun a few years earlier, and of which you will read in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
 
 
 
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