pilchard
a kind of fish – fin, bony and scaly fish – belongs to the ‘herring’ fish family – small with stream-lined body
The herrings, sardines, anchovy, pilchard and some other small fish are all canned or tinned fish. They are found in large schools – large numbers in groups. The most common name is ‘sardines’.
According to some people, a fish shorter than 4 inches is called a sardine, and a fish longer than 4 inches is called a pilchard!
Pilchards, like the other small species of fish, are a major source of food for people in many parts of the world.
1.
as dead as a salt pilcher (‘pilcher’ = pilchard)
2.
cream upon pilchards [said of fine clothes on an untidy, indecent and careless person]
3.
money with love is like salt without pilchers (‘pilcher’ = pilchard)
4.
wives be like pilchards, when they be good they be middling and when they be bad they be bad
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