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The meaning of the proverbial expression ''To go round by Robin Hood's barn'' is "to take the longest way round".<ref>{{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 292.</ref> A (relatively modern US?) variant is "all the way around Robin Hood's Bush".<ref>See forum thread at [http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=19855 Wordwizard].</ref>
The meaning of the proverbial expression ''<section begin=proverb />To go round by Robin Hood's barn<section end=proverb />'' is "to take the longest way round".<ref>{{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 292.</ref> A (relatively modern US?) variant is "all the way around Robin Hood's Bush".<ref>See forum thread at [http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=19855 Wordwizard].</ref>


=== Collections and lists ===
== Collections and lists ==
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 292.
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 292.


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=== Studies and criticism ===
=== Studies and criticism ===
* [http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=19855 Wordwizard].
* [http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=19855 Wordwizard].


=== Brief mention ===
== Brief mention ==
* {{:Gilchrist, Robert Murray 1913a}}, p. 24.
* {{:Gilchrist, Robert Murray 1913a}}, p. 24.


=== Also see ===
== Also see ==
* [[Robin Hood Barn (Winnersh)]].
* [[Robin Hood Barn (Winnersh)]].


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== Notes ==
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Latest revision as of 06:35, 12 March 2021

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-07-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-03-12.

The meaning of the proverbial expression To go round by Robin Hood's barn is "to take the longest way round".[1] A (relatively modern US?) variant is "all the way around Robin Hood's Bush".[2]

Collections and lists

Citations

1913 - Hatfield, James Taft - Book review

Equally clear is Professor Wood's supreme piety toward the aged Goethe. He works from the principle that even the most phantasmagoric episode in Faust contains some adequate, worthy meaning, which he purposes to chase to its capture, though the hunt should lead around Robin Hood's barn; he will let go of no hint until he has harried it to quiescence.[3]

1922 - Bailey, Margaret Emerson - Robin Hood's Barn

[Book title:] Robin Hood's Barn: the Confessions of a Garden Adventurer[4]

Studies and criticism

Brief mention

Also see

Notes

  1. ↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 292.
  2. ↑ See forum thread at Wordwizard.
  3. ↑ Hatfield, James Taft, review. '[Review of:] Faust-Studien. Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis Goethes in seiner Dichtung. Von Henry Wood. Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1912. vi + 294 pp.', Modern Language Notes, vol. XXVIII (1913), pp. 186-88; see p. 186.
  4. ↑ Bailey, Margaret Emerson. Robin Hood's Barn: the Confessions of a Garden Adventurer (New York, ©1922).




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