Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Hawera and Normanby Star choose

Quotation Text

[NZ] Hawera & Normanby Star (N.Z.) 27 Apr. 3/1: The Government never thanks you when it takes your money, and to be consistent it must discourage ‘that sort of thing, you know’.
at you know, phr.
[NZ] Hawera and Normanby Star (NZ) 27 Nov. 2/5: Robert Whetson, brewer, an old identity, is dead, aged 79.
at old identity (n.) under old, adj.
[NZ] Hawera & Normanby Star (N.Z.) 13 June 6: [heading] What Is a Coffee Cooler? Americans have coined a new name for officers and men holding soft jobs.
at coffee-cooler (n.) under coffee, n.
[NZ] Hawera & Normanby Star (NZ) 27 Nov. 3/3: Caporetto was the Italian St Quentin; to ‘come a Cadorna’ became one rendering of a homely phrase with the Australian troops.
at come a Cadorna (v.) under come, v.3
no more results