1894 Shields Dly News 31 Aug. 4/3: The diet at girls’ schools does not consist so largely of ‘bread and scrape’ now as it did.at scrape, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I put on my ‘German flutes’ (boots) and my ‘bucket afloat’ (coat).at bucket afloat, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: My ‘lean and fat’ (hat) blew off my ‘ball of lead’ (head) and I felt an awful ‘two-foot-rule’ (fool).at lean and fat, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I gave him a ‘goddess Diana’ (tanner) and he said: Thank you for the ‘sugar and honey’ (money) .at sugar and honey, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I walked along the ‘oats and chaff’ (footpath).at oats and chaff, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: A ‘lump of coker (bloke) put out his ‘frying pans’ (hands) and caught it.at lump of coke, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I gave him a ‘goddess Diana’ (tanner) and he said: Thank you for the ‘sugar and honey’ (money) .at goddess Diana, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I went out to buy some [...] ‘Everton toffee’ (coffee).at Everton toffee, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: I put on my ‘German flutes’ (boots) and my ‘bucket afloat’ (coat).at German flutes, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 2 Dec. 2/7: My ‘lean and fat’ (hat) blew off my ‘ball of lead’ (head) and I felt an awful ‘two-foot-rule’ (fool).at two-foot rule, n.
1927 Shields Dly News 13 July 4/3: Occasionally one could also hear remarks from the listening crowd; ‘Down in front! Take your hat off! Keep your shirt on! Attaboy, Lindy!’.at keep your shirt on! (excl.) under shirt, n.
1931 Shields Dly News 9 Dec. 3/3: ‘Threepenny Dodgers for Church Collections’ / Why is it that Scotland has such a love of threepenny bits.at threepenny dodger (n.) under threepenny, adj.
1942 Shields Dly News 4 Sept. 4/6: He [i.e. a G.I.] may say [...] that our beer is four O [...] and far better than our black strap (coffee).at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
1942 Shields Dly News 4 Sept. 4/6: ‘Our own dough-puncher makes better sinkers than the ones you get here’.at dough-roller (n.) under dough, n.
1942 Shields Dly News 4 Sept. 4/6: [headline] Shavetails think that Britain is Snaffoo.at s.n.a.f.u., adj.