Children of the Revels
(also Children of the Queen's Revels)
noun
Any of several companies of boy actors active in the early 17th cent.
- The best known of these companies was known as the Children of the Chapel (1600), Children of the (Queen’s) Revels (1604–6), Children of the Blackfriars (1606–9), Children of the Whitefriars (1609–10), and, partially reconstituted, as Children of the Queen’s Revels again (1610–13)..
Origin
Early 17th century.
- the big (or bigger or larger) picture
- the big screen
- the Big Smoke
- the big stick
- the Big Three (or Four etc.)
- the bird has flown
- the birds and the bees
- the biter bitten (or bit)
- the Blessed Sacrament
- the Blitz
- the bloom is off the rose
- the Boat Race
- the body beautiful
- the Book of Psalms
- the Books of the Maccabees
- the boot (or shoe) is on the other foot
- the Border
- the Borders
- the bottom falls (or drops) out
- the Bourse
- the boy (or girl) next door
- the brass ring
- the bread of life
- the breath of life
- the buck stops here (or with someone)