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Fun 5 Oct. 41/2: Poor Lord Bateman felt, as low folks / Do express it, ‘up a tree’.at up a tree, phr.
Fun 5 Oct. 41/2: Poor Lord Bateman felt, as low folks / Do express it, ‘up a tree’. Fun 28 Sept. 16: [cartoon caption, of burglar sidesaddle on a donkey] The Pretty Housebreaker!.at pretty horse breaker, n.
Fun 21 Sept. 11/2: Why is the Daily News like a black eye? Because it is a mourning peeper.at peeper in mourning (n.) under peeper, n.
Fun 28 Sept. 22/2: What’s that? They’ve gone! Atrocious sell, / My watch, my money, gone as well.at sell, n.
Fun XXXV-VI 189: She would as soon stay indoors as be robbed of the privilege of yelling ‘Wotcher’.at wotcher!, excl.
Fun 29 May n.p.: ‘A Double Event’ The Treasurer and the Box Book-keeper take their benefits... heavily backed by the two companies, and we trust the public will put on a pot for them [F&H].at put the pot on (v.) under pot, n.1
Fun 4 Nov. n.p.: The Policemans Complaint. Nay oft Im told Ive been deceived, And of my xs Im bereaved; So on the whole I muchly grieved By information I received [F&H].at muchly, adv.
Fun Sept. n.p.: A man, the proud possessor of knock-me-downs, was brought up at Wandsworth police-court the other day for plying his trade on Putney Common [F&H].at knock-’em-downs, n.
Fun Sept. n.p.: The difference is I dusts his [coat] off his back, and he dusts mine on my back [F&H].at dust someone’s jacket (v.) under dust, v.1
Fun 10 Aug. n.p.: Just as I’m back into harness, others are off to sea, mountain, and mere [F&H].at in harness under harness, n.
‘The Right Tap’ Fun July n.p.: If the lever, meaning a plumper, were labelled ‘stout,’ and those recording a split vote half and half, the illusion would be complete [F&H].at plumper, n.2
Fun 26 Jan. n.p.: Sweet champagne and Apollinaris—Sham and Polly, as it is slangily called.at Polly, n.1
Fun 272: If the abusers of ankle jacks were occasionally Jack Ketched, universal gloom would not swallow up the community.at Jack Ketch, v.
Fun 11 Jan. 11/2: Have a strong S. and B., and a bit of lunch.at b and s, n.
Fun n.p.: He was very fond of what, in schoolboy days, we used to call doing dags [F&H].at dags, n.1
Fun 9 Nov. 201: ‘What is a vanishing point?’ said the schoolmaster to little Billy. ‘The corner you bunks round when the ‘slops’ after yer,’ warbled the golden-headed child [F&H].at bunk, v.1
Fun 21 Sept. 126: A magistrate who was lately fined 20s. for striking a man in the street... remarked, ‘It’s rather salt’ [F&H].at salt, adj.
Fun 4 Apr. 148: Silently they walked into the Gaiety bar just as though they were going to order a couple of coffins instead of only two more nails [F&H].at coffin nail, n.1
Fun 10 June 237: Ah! by Bendigo, I forgot! Grimmy’s hung up! [...] [F&H].at hung up, adj.
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