Wishing you the real McCoy, not the alloy.
‘An alloy invented by Christopher Pinchbeck, looking like gold and used to make cheap jewellery.’
Source: Virginia Woolf, Orlando, ed. Rachel Bowlby, Oxford: World’s Classics, 1992, p. 334
Pinchbeck
Wishing you the real McCoy, not the alloy.
‘An alloy invented by Christopher Pinchbeck, looking like gold and used to make cheap jewellery.’
Source: Virginia Woolf, Orlando, ed. Rachel Bowlby, Oxford: World’s Classics, 1992, p. 334
