diet of worms n. In phrases go to the diet of worms (v.) [pun on the proper name Diet of Worms, the meeting (1521) between Emperor Charles V and Martin Luther that effectively launched the Protestant Reformation + the action of worms on the dead body] to die.17881790180018101811Show quotations1785, 1788, 1796Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. 1811Lex. Balatronicum.
go to the diet of worms (v.) [pun on the proper name Diet of Worms, the meeting (1521) between Emperor Charles V and Martin Luther that effectively launched the Protestant Reformation + the action of worms on the dead body] to die.17881790180018101811Show quotations1785, 1788, 1796Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. 1811Lex. Balatronicum.
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