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here be dragons May 1st 2012, 16:56 ‎Phrase: # By extension, the area of the unknown. ← Older revision Revision as of 16:56, 1 May 2012 Line 5: Line 5:       # {{non-gloss definition|A fanciful [[notation]], historically used in [[map]]s, to indicate either the belief that unknown dangers exist in a certain location on the map, or that actual dragons can be found there.}}   # {{non-gloss definition|A fanciful [[notation]], historically used in [[map]]s, to indicate either the belief that unknown dangers exist in a certain location on the map, or that actual dragons can be found there.}}   + # By extension, the area of the unknown.   + #* '''1997''', Charles Jones, The Edinburgh history of the Scots language'', p. 336:   + #*: In undertaking such a task, I realise that I am venturing into uncharted waters, or at least waters for which only charts of the ''''here be dragons'''' variety exist.   + #* '''1993''', Incorporated Association of Organists, ''Organists' Review'', Volume 79, Issues 309-312, p. 219:   + #*: Speaking of money... '''here be dragons'''... Do you charge?   + #* '''1997''', William R. Everdell, ''The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought'', p. 191:   + #*: Analytical philosophers mark "'''Here be dragons'''" on the part of the intellectual map that belongs to phenomenology.   + #* '''1962''', Geoffrey Fletcher, ''The London Nobody Knows'', p. 16:   + #*: '''Here be dragons''' in the shape of London landladies, owners of small hotels ('B. & B.') in the streets off the lower end of Euston Road. . .   + #*'''1931''', Ritchie Calder, reported in ''New Scientist'', Vol. 114, No. 1559, May 7, 1987, p. 61:   + #*:. . . let me go into what was the unknown, ''''Here-be-Dragons'''', hinterland of science, to find out what made scientists tick. . .   +       ====Synonyms====   ====Synonyms====

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