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Essex Newsman 1 Oct. 4/6: The Cottage Housewife [...] Bubble and Squeak — Cut [...] some cold boiled salt beef [...] Chop up some cooked cabbage.at bubble and squeak, n.1
Essex Newsman 1 Oct. 4/6: The Cottage Housewife [...] Bubble and Squeak — Cut [...] some cold boiled salt beef [...] Chop up some cooked cabbage. Essex Newsman 7 Dec. 3/2: The chairman believed the labourer and the tenant would row in the same boat before long.at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
Essex Newsman 7 Dec. 3/3: If a horse could not work eight or nine hours a day without being well fed, how could Hodge or an Essex calf be expected to.at Essex calf (n.) under Essex, adj.
Essex Newsman 26 Apr. 3/5: ‘Well, Patrico, you are in for it this time, I think,’ observed the policeman.at patrico, n.
Essex Newsman 8 May 3/6: A couple of fellows who were pretty thoroughly soaked with bad whiskey.at soaked, adj.
Essex Newsman 1 Feb. 3/4: Who can tell where a high toby cove is at this time of night.at high toby cove (n.) under high-toby, n.
Essex Newsman 5 Apr. 3/5: If the officers get a grip of you, you’ll ride up Holborn Hill with a halter round your neck.at walk (backwards) up Holborn Hill (v.) under Holborn Hill, n.
Essex Newsman 1 Feb. 3/5: He was on a lay that is likely to endin a ride on the three-legged mare that was foaled by an acorn.at three-legged mare (n.) under three, adj.
Essex Newsman 18 Apr. 3/6: Hush! ‘snug’s’ the word. this way, quick.at snug’s the word!, excl.
Essex Newsman 18 Apr. 3/6: I dunno how i came to be so spooney.at spoony, adj.
Essex Newsman 20 May 3/2: Some of the older women are confirmed smokers, and [...] enjoy the comforts of a ‘nose-warmer’ or short clay pipe.at nose warmer (n.) under nose, n.
Essex Newsman 8 July 2/6: Last Sunday every bush and bosky ferntree was surrounded, and ’Arryism and ’Arrietism reigned supreme.at ’Arryism (n.) under ’Arry/’Arriet, n.
Essex Newsman 5 Nov. n.p.: What are the odds that he didn’t get [...] an appetising rasher or a savoury Billingsgate pheasant for his tea?at Billingsgate pheasant, n.
Essex Newsman 13 Sept. 3/3: Hold your row, don’t be afraid.at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
Essex Newsman 7 Nov. 3/8: The complainant accused himself of ‘jiggery-pokery’ and of trying to deceive.at jiggery-pokery, n.
Essex Newsman 27 June 3/2: ‘Just listen to him!’ exclaimed Mrs Quick; ‘look at his impudence. Hear how he cheeks the Court. Why, It’s as bad as when he once called my husband an “undigested Ananias”.’.at undigested Ananias, n.
Essex Newsman 19 May 4/5: Mr Cross ordered the prisoner off his land, and the prisoner threatened to bash his brains out.at bash, v.
Essex Newsman 6 Apr. 2/6: Those slices of ‘beef’ were almost as tough as shoe leather and if they were not horseflesh, I’m a Dutchman.at I’m a Dutchman, phr.
Essex Newsman 6 Apr. 2/6: Johnny Falk [...] is a thrifty personage, and very cunning in the fabrication of mystery bags and queer dishes.at bag of mystery (n.) under bag, n.1
Essex Newsman 16 Feb. 2/6: The Coroner: This is very like ‘nigger-driving’. What time do you get to bed at night? [Boy] Witness: I get up at 5.30 and go to bed about eleven o’clock. [Cries of ‘Disgraceful’ from the jurymen].at nigger-driving (n.) under nigger-driver, n.
Essex Newsman 22 Nov. 3/6: At her Employment Bureau [...] Mrs Pigott is [...] enabling ex-soldiers [...] from the war in South Africa to earn an honest crust.at crust, n.1
Essex Newsman 28 Feb. 3/6: Walthawstow Boggle. Walthamstow is essentially a working-class constituency and more suited for a Labour candidate than a Liberal.at boggle, n.
Essex Newsman 12 Sept. 1/5: He is a fat-headed — , and a pumpkin-head — , and he don’t know horse from a cow.at pumpkin head, n.
Essex Newsman 14 Nov. 2/8: Miss Garrett and I walked toghether to the Common gate. I left her outside [...] but when I came back she had gone. [...] Laver asked me if I was going out next night and I said, ‘No, she has done me a stinker to-night, and I have made no appointment with her’.at stinker, n.1
Essex Newsman 8 July 2/7: Going the Complete Unicorn at Colchester [...] Henry Byford, a labourer, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.at go the complete unicorn (v.) under unicorn, n.
Essex Newsman 8 Dec. 2/4: ‘Landsakes! it’s locked!’ the housekeeper muttered.at landsakes! (excl.) under land, n.1
Essex Newsman 8 Aug. 4/8: [headline] Harwich Lumped Drowned.at lumper, n.1
Essex Newsman 10 Oct. 2/2: I ain’t everybody’s money. I’m too little for a swell coachman, and too big for a jockey.at money, n.
Essex Newsman 7 Mar. 3/8: Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald, MP, said [...] they saw a good deal of mudslinging.at mud-slinging, n.
Essex Newsman 11 July 1/3: Davies said, ‘You have come to the wrong shop, I don’t make a book — I only receive an occasional [betting] slip and money’.at come to the wrong shop (v.) under shop, n.1
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