< Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
John-a-Dreams. A stupid, dreamy fellow, always in a brown study and half asleep.
"Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing."
Shakespeare: Hamlet, ii. 2.
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