The word is used vocatively in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (4:iii). The man concerned also has a heap of insults addressed to him by Petruchio: thou thread, thou thimble; thou yard; three-quarters; half-yard; quarter; nail; thou flea;...

Dull scissors make crooked-mouthed tailors. (Danish) Nine tailors make a man....

A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to...