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Liverpool Echo 27 Oct. 1/1: [advert] ‘Worth a Jew’s Eye [...] the Grand Remedy for all Liver and Kindred Complaints.at Jew’s eye, n.
Liverpool Echo 27 Oct. 1/1: [advert] ‘Worth a Jew’s Eye [...] the Grand Remedy for all Liver and Kindred Complaints. Liverpool Echo 13 June 4/4: Spernaculum. To show the extraordinary prices buyers are willing to give for champagne [...] Pommery 1874 reAlised from 140s. to 148s.at supernaculum, n.
Liverpool Echo 28 June 3/6: Two innings for a club in existence two seasons is too utterly too too altogether.at too utterly too (too), adj.
Liverpool Echo 15 Mar. 3/3: What was the use of hop-hopping ‘like a hen on a hot griddle’.at like a hen on a hot griddle under hot, adj.
Liverpool Echo 2 May 3/8: The latest craze is hat flirtation. it is too utterly utter, too intensely intense.at too utterly too (too), adj.
Liverpool Echo 3 June 4/5: The Warbler’s Return. Madame Albani reappeared at the Royal Italian Opera [...] in ‘La Traviata’.at warbler, n.
Liverpool Echo 20 Oct. 4/2: A Too Robustious Suitor . Higgins [was] fined £20 and costs [...] for assaulting a lady whom he had asked to marry him.at robustious, adj.
Liverpool Echo 16 Mar. 3/2: The conscript fathers of Cottonopolis have elected to ‘fling the heft after the hatchet,’ to the tune of the two further millions required.at Cottonopolis (n.) under cotton, n.
Liverpool Echo 18 Mar. 3/2: This ruffianly practice of ‘socketing’ which recalls to my mind a similar predicament [...] in one of our large Yorkshire towns where this blackmailing has become very prevalent.at socketing (n.) under socket, n.
Liverpool Echo 7 Apr. 4/5: ‘Donnybrook’ Whisky. A veritable devil’s brew.at devil’s brew (n.) under devil, n.
Liverpool Echo 18 Feb. 4/3: Hooliganism Across the Water. Birkenhead maintains an unsavory reputation for Saturday night scenes of disorder.at water, the, n.
Liverpool Echo 22 May 8/4: Over her closely cropped hair was a cloth cap, with the peak pulled well over the face in the fashion of the ‘peaky blinder’.at peaky blinder, n.
Liverpool Echo 29 May 6/5: The weestmoreland Mortor-cycle Club held a series of trials [...] with very stiff gradients [...] B. Jeffreys, on an Indian, ‘conked out’ at the bend, his engine failing.at conk (out), v.
Liverpool Echo 27 Jan. 8/5: There is too much ‘lardy-dardy,’ too much doing the grand.at lardy-dardy, adj.
Liverpool Echo 26 June 8/1: Prisoner was known as ‘Flash Harry’, and he was a persistent thief.at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
Liverpool Echo 13 May 5/3: He advised the men to acept the present offer until they were sufficiently organized to strike [...] Tommy rot!at tommyrot! (excl.) under tommyrot, n.
Liverpool Echo 11 June 7/2: He seemed to have outrun the constable in his native country and went to Monte Video.at outrun the constable, v.
Liverpool Echo 19 July n.p.: I gave him [i.e. a soldier] a cigarette and he lighted it. But after he had taken three puffs his finger and thumb closed on the burning end, and he stuck the extinguished cigarette behind his ear. ‘You do not like my brand?’ I inquired. ‘Oh, yes sir, it's A.1. I'm only dimping - it's a trick we work in the trenches’.at dimp, v.
Liverpool Echo 15 Feb. 3/7: I am in great demand as an interpreter; but somebody put the tin hat on it the other day by calling me an ‘interrupter!’.at put the tin hat on (v.) under tin hat, n.1
Liverpool Echo 5 Nov. 8/6: ‘The long-nosed ’uns are buying now,’ remarked the observant broker.at long-nosed, adj.
Liverpool Echo 19 Jan. 4/7: The improved Zeppelins (which England had been a ‘stupid-head’ not to copy as well as she could).at stupid-head (n.) under stupid, adj.
Liverpool Echo 20 May 4/2: [headline] Germans Bested In The Air.at best, v.
Liverpool Echo 13 Apr. 6/6: There are many ‘dead men’ — empty bottles of this particular beer.at dead man, n.
Liverpool Echo 20 Dec. 3/7: Rollicking Randolph: ‘We’ve got some regular rib-benders on tap’.at rib bender (n.) under rib, n.1
Liverpool Echo 2 Aug. 4/6: Bull’s-Eyes for Britons, Sweet Manufacturer’s Evidence at Tribunal. [...] — What is the nature of your supply to the Army? — Bull’s Eyes.at bull’s eye, n.
Liverpool Echo 26 July 4/6: Our good friend and correspondent has succeeded in brining to us, through Yankeeland [...] the following notes.at Yankeeland, n.
Liverpool Echo 8 Feb. 3/5: ‘Pals in the Army’ This splendid sketch gives a true insight into that ‘chumminess’ which is one of the secrets of our Army’s wonderful morale.at chumminess (n.) under chummy, adj.
Liverpool Echo 8 Aug. 4/1: I might as well be shot as clemmed to death.at clem, v.
Liverpool Echo 24 Dec. 4/3: Paterfamilias has donned his ‘clever clogs’ and ironically smiles on feminine incompetence.at clever clogs (n.) under clever, adj.
Liverpool Echo 27 Mar. 4/3: Hodge on Strike. The farm labourers employed in [...] districts of Wirral have gone on strike for higher wages.at hodge, n.
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