Lord Mayor's fool

English Noun Lord Mayor's fool An imaginary personage said to like everything that is good, and plenty of it. en 1845 Leigh Hunt The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside 213 The Clown is a London cockney, with a prodigious eye to his own comfort and muffins,—a Lord Mayor's fool, who loved "everything that was good;" and Columbine is the boarding-school girl, ripe for running away with, and making a dance of it all the way from Chelsea to Gretna Green. References en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary