lord mayor n.2
1. an oath, a ‘swear’.
Sporting Times 1 Oct. 1/3: Those relatives, we well can understand, / Breathed a ‘Lord Mayor’ when they found that the anticipated ‘dust’ / Took the form of non-negotiable sand. | ‘Great Expectations’||
Up the Frog. | ||
Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
2. a chair.
AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: here and there. A chair. (Origin uncertain, but probably English.) This is doubted. Lord Mayor was always used. | ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in||
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