Jack_Sprat Jack_Sprat

Jack Sprat - Definition and Overview

Jack Sprat is a nursery rhyme with lyrics as follows:

Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean.
And so between the two of them,
They licked the platter clean!

The word between in the third line is alternatively seen as the word betwixt.

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