subs. (political: obsolete).—See quots.
1890. Standard, 3 March, 3, 4 [Mr. Labouchere loquitur]. Some time ago they invented a word for the Marquess’s statements. They said, “When you are telling a lie and want to tell it civilly, say you are telling a SALISBURY.”
1890. Pall Mall Gazette, 1 March, 5, 1. Lord Salisbury’s evasion, which past experience, even without the facts, suggested was a SALISBURY. Ibid., 6, 1. The famous SALISBURY about the Secret-Treaty … must henceforth be read “cum grano salis-bury.”
