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London Life 31 May 5/2: [A]udiences of A 1 manners, / Who’ll spend their bobs and bring in all their tanners.at A-1, adj.
London Life 31 May 5/2: [A]udiences of A 1 manners, / Who’ll spend their bobs and bring in all their tanners. London Life 2 Aug. 2/1: The ring droppers are busy in ‘copping flats’.at cop a flat (v.) under cop a..., v.
London Life 7 June 7/1: [T]he extraordinary resemblance between some of the ladies of the demi-monde [...] and the abigails of his hotel.at abigail, n.1
London Life 24 May 3/1: [A] large proportion of showily dressed young women, of the Free and Easy sort.at free-and-easy, n.
London Life 7 June 6/2: [There is] very little Fun, except for the agreeable landlords of the drinking free-and-easys.at free-and-easy, n.
London Life 28 June 7/1: Being usually rich men, their domestic relations do not suffer by their profligate extravagance in the saloons of ‘Anonyma’.at anonyma, n.
London Life 14 June 6/1: A clever detective who is desirous of getting divorce evidence, well knows that it is advisable [...] to ‘get at,’ [...] the maid of the lady suspected.at get at, v.
London Life 30 Aug. 2/2: [T]he ‘lotion’ they [i.e. barmaids]are able to put away is something amazing. ‘White, satin’ is their favourite ‘tipple,’ and such a facility have they for ‘lowering’ it, that [...] every distillery in the country would have to be requisitioned to supply their wants.at put away, v.
London Life 16 Aug. 3/2: It is easy to tell when the card sharp has bagged a flat, for he instantly, under the plea that the ‘copper’ is coming, [...] moves off.at bag a flat (v.) under bag, v.
London Life 21 June 7/2: Indeed he has gone so far, far astray, / There's nothing left for but Poverty Bay.at Poverty Bay, n.
London Life 24 May 6/1: Beaky [i.e. Benjamin Disraeli] : Ah, ma tear, ’tis very sheap, / Shoost as sheap to me as lives are [...] (Jew’s harp-bow).at beaky (adj.) under beak, n.2
London Life 24 May 7/1: Dear pros., sweet pros., can’t you stop the ‘beer money’ system? Can't you refuse to support a gang of roughs in idleness, and go in yourselves for legitimate applause?at beer money (n.) under beer, n.
London Life 7 June 7/2: I have been with them to the ‘Argyle,’ the ‘Holborn,’ ‘Caldwell’s,’ and the ‘Bird,’ over and over.at Bird, n.
London Life 30 Aug. 3/2: We’ll play light upon the sherry, as we mean to stick to ‘biz,’ / And we know that we are certain to be deluged quite in Fiz.at biz, n.1
London Life 7 June 6/2: [They] and ‘blow each other tight’ with amazement at the serene nonchalance with which the inspirer of their delight treats their broadest insinuations.at blow me tight!, excl.
London Life 7 June 7/2: Their naughtiness is generally dispensing of surreptitious hospitality to the ‘boy in blue,’ or the ‘boy in scarlet’.at boys in blue, n.
London Life 24 May 7/1: Don’t let it be said that the most liberal hand at boozing ruffians shall be the most successful artist. Rely on your own talent and refuse to support this vile imposition.at booze, v.
London Life 12 July 5/2: [H]ow much better it is to be an Englishman and get boozed on four half, than to drink French brandy [...] till you have D. T.at boozed, adj.
London Life 2 Aug. 7/1: We have [...] big boozers in every class of society.at boozer, n.
London Life 7 June 7/2: Their naughtiness is generally dispensing of surreptitious hospitality to the ‘boy in blue,’ or the ‘boy in scarlet’.at boys in scarlet (n.) under boys, the, n.
London Life 8/1: Do you Brown to it?at brown, v.1
London Life 28 June 8/1: ’Twas long a subject of dismay, / That Frenchmen lived on filthy cats. / But now the French to Bull can say / ‘Your army needs are long-tailed cats’.at John Bull, n.1
London Life 6 Sept. 5/2: Under the Railway Arch was at least twenty prostitutes, and at least as many roughs, who I suppose were their Fancy Men or Bullies.at bully, n.1
London Life 9 Aug. 5/1: [T]hey responded rather tartly : ‘We go to Chelsea for , our buns, where we get them buttered’.at buttered bun, n.1
London Life 6 Sept. 4/2: Asked I of a ‘bung’ while chatting, / Thinking be surely would know. / Barmen are always quite young men. / Where do the old ones all go?at bung, n.2
London Life 24 May 7/2: Cabby, indeed, is not always so civil as he might be [...] but we fancy that in nine cases out of ten the driver has more reason to complain of the fare than the fare of the driver.at cabby, n.1
London Life 4 May 1: [headline] barmen returning from a calico ball.at calico ball (n.) under calico, adj.
London Life 21 June 6/1: And let me the canakin clink, clink; / And let me the canakin clink; / [...] / Why, then, let a soldier drink.at canniken, n.2
London Life 28 June 8/1: ’Twas long a subject of dismay, / That Frenchmen lived on filthy cats. / But now the French to Bull can say / ‘Your army needs are long-tailed cats’.at cat, n.3
London Life 4/1: Talking of Major Lyon, he certainly has succeeded in partially extinguishing the ‘cerulean’ element of the comiques.at cerulean, adj.
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