| Summary: | trouble n Mourners at a wake would shake with the bereaved and murmur, "Sorry for your trouble, Mam". This was said to me several times only last year. *Hubert Hutton told me that his father, Sir Charles Hutton, often related the story of the well-known undertaker in St. John's who, when called in his line of business, would doff his stove-pipe hat and deliver his famous salutation: "Sorry-for-your-trouble.-What's-the-length-of-the-corpse?" (This is still used as a catch-phrase in the family.) It was said all in one breath. DNE-cit JH 11/70 JH 12/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I take, ~ trouble
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