mackerel breeze
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[edit]Noun
[edit]mackerel breeze (plural mackerel breezes)
- A strong breeze which ruffles the surface of the water, favourable for catching mackerel. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- While they tacked to and fro in the river, under the impulse of a mackerel breeze, the physician expressed his satisfaction, and Pallet was ravished with the entertainment.