ON THE HIGH-ROAD TO NEEDHAM, phr. (old).—See quot. Cf. PECKHAM, LAND OF NOD, BEDFORDSHIRE, etc.

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  1670.  RAY, Proverbs [BOHN], 221. You are ON THE HIGH-WAY TO NEEDHAM. Needham is a market-town in this county [Suffolk]; according to the wit of the vulgar, they are said to be in the highway thither which do hasten to poverty.

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