"Fitted him to a T."
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Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1784); reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 640.
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Samuel Johnson
1709 β 1784
englischer Gelehrter, Schriftsteller, Kritiker und Lexikograph
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