Humpteen dumpteen revivals. Before all the King's Hoarsers with all the Queen's Mum
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Humpteen dumpteen: Humpty Dumpty (and "all the King's Hoarsers with all the Queen's Mum").
- umpteen: relatively large but unspecified in number, e.g. umpteen times; umpteen pounds.
- revival: a theatrical revival of an old play; again the idea that the same drama is enacted over and over in dream, in history
- revival: from death, sleep, unconcsiousness. a Resurrection, a tising up
- all the king;s horses and all the king's men: line from the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty"
- Queens Men: an Elizabethan playing company that operated between 1583 and 1595. Its patron was Queen Elizabeth I.
- queen mum: the mother of the British monarch
- hoarse
- mum
