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Jericho|ˈdʒɛrɪkəʊ|
[Name of a town in Palestine, where David bade his servants tarry until their beards were grown: see 2 Sam. x. 5.]
Used in slang or colloq. phrases for a place of retirement or concealment, or a place far distant and out of the way.
1635Heywood Hierarch. iv. 208 Who would,..I know, Bid such young boyes to stay in Iericho Vntill their Beards were growne, their wits more staid. 1648Mercurius Aulicus 2–30 Mar., Let them all goe to Jericho, And ne're be seen againe. 1758A. Murphy Upholsterer ii, He may go to Jericho for what I cares. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Grey Dolphin, His kick was tremendous, and when he had his boots on would—to use an expression of his own,..‘send a man from Jericho to June’. 1859Thackeray Virgin. xvi, She may go to Bath, or she may go to Jericho for me. 1898J. Arch Story of Life xiii. 310 To enable them to do without the strong arm of the labourer and to send them to Jericho, if they had nowhere else to go to. |