Leeches
[litʃiz]
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To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests. If they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious illness tn your family (if you escape yourself). To see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends. If they should bite you, there is danger for you in unexpected places, and you should heed well this warning.
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Examples
- It's no use plying him with wide words like Expenditure: I wouldn't talk of phlebotomy, I would empty a pot of leeches upon him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, you ply him with the 'Trumpet,' Humphrey; and I will put the leeches on him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But lawyers, sharks, and leeches, are not easily satisfied, you know! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hardly anything real in the shop but the leeches, and _they _are second-hand. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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