Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Lord-Mayor’s-fool
subs. phr. (old).—See quot.
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1859. H. KINGSLEY, Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, xxxii. Burnside was in the habit of saying that he was like the LORD MAYOR’S FOOL—fond of everything that was good.
