Tooley Street tailor

noun

Etymology

The "three tailors of Tooley Street" are said to have immortalized themselves by preparing a petition for Parliament bearing only their own signatures, which began, "We, the people of England..."

Definitions

  1. A self-important, vainglorious person.

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