Citations:bosom friend


 * A very close friend
 * 1732, Thomas Fuller (according to Susan Kelz Sperling, Tenderfeet and Ladyfingers: A Visceral Approach to Words, p. 127, 1982)
 * "No friend like to a bosom-friend", as the man said when he pulled out a louse


 * 1707, Thomas Brown, "A Panegyric on a Louse", in The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, in Prose and Verse, p. 20.
 * What e'er befals 'em of Calamity,
 * They're certain of a Bosom Friend in thee:


 * 1957, The Huntington Library quarterly, vol. 20, p. 24. (possibly a mention)
 * I'm afraid, your bosom friends [lice] are become your backbiters.