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a peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom — The month of March is traditionally wet and blustery. A peck in former times was a dry measure of two gallons. Thomas Fuller, discussing this saying in his Worthies of England (1662, p. 87), links the ‘king’s ransom’ to the £100,000 raised in… … Proverbs new dictionary
