Tooley Street tailor

English

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..."

Noun

Tooley Street tailor (plural Tooley Street tailors)

1. (UK, slang, archaic) A self-important, vainglorious person.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary