just as I feared, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

just as I feared n.

[rhy. sl. from the Edward Lear limerick (1846): ‘There was an old man with a beard / Who said “It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen / Four larks and a wren / Have all built their nests in my beard.”’]

a beard.

1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1992		R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.