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Mitre Court : a tale of the great city choose

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[UK] Mrs J.H. Riddell Mitre Court II 127: I myself have no idea, unless it was your thick-headed John Bull.
at John Bull, n.1
[UK] Mrs J.H. Riddell Mitre Court II 124: He is a fathead—a great blundering John Bull.
at fat-head, n.1
[UK] Mrs J.H. Riddell Mitre Court II 116: Send it round to my own poor little one-horse money-changer.
at one-horse (adj.) under one, adj.
[UK] Mrs J.H. Riddell Mitre Court II 104: Take that great ox John Jeffly—he thinks no more of me than he did when I had not a notion where to turn for sixpence.
at ox, n.
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