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London Dly News 18 Mar. 4/5: In a like way, the police magistrate [...] desires the accused blood-shedder not to ‘show his cards.’ After this most guarded fashion does English justice play at blind hokey!at blind hookey (n.) under blind, adj.1
London Dly News 18 Mar. 4/5: In a like way, the police magistrate [...] desires the accused blood-shedder not to ‘show his cards.’ After this most guarded fashion does English justice play at blind hokey! London Dly News 18 Feb. 7/4: Thou, Westminster’s darling! — who once used to utter short damn-your-eyes speeches.at damn-your-eyes (adj.) under damn, v.
London Dly News 15 Apr. 4/2: Justice — awful maid! [...] sells a lumping pennyweroth to an amateur ruffian who has money enough to buy luxury.at lumping pennyworth, n.
London Dly News 16 Jan. 2/2: he is represented to the jury as [...] a blind buzzard who cannot see when it is hopeless.at blind buzzard (n.) under blind, adj.1
London Dly News 15 Jan. 4/3: He said he knew Burdon’s Hotel, which was a place some people called Whitecross street Prison.at Burdon’s hotel, n.
London Dly News 5 Nov. 2/5: A most awkwardly dressed she-male was observed straddling through Wootonbridge [...] the supposed damsel turned out to be one of the Parkhurst Prison youths, who had fitted himself out with the stolen petticoats.at she-male, n.
London Dly News 10 Aug. 2/6: [from N.Y. Herald] The police generally were provided with a locust club.at locust, n.1
London Dly News 12 Oct. 3/3: The Queen and her ministers [should] institute a national fillaloo.at fillaloo, n.
London Dly News 26 Aug. 3/4: The style I apprehend, sir, is what the learned Scribblerus would call ‘rigmarole’ in logic [...] and in vulgar acceptation ‘Three blue beans in a blue bladder’.at three blue beans in one blue bladder (n.) under three, adj.
London Dly News 10 Sept. 3/5: I entreat the intelligent magistrates in whose division Rogue’s Walk lies [...] Why should no quiet person be able to walk [...] unmolested [...] If Piccadilly may be termed an artery of the metropolis, most assuredly the strip of pavement between the top of the Haymarket and the Regent’s-circus is one of its ulcers.at rogue’s walk (n.) under rogue, n.
London Dly News 7 Sept. 2/5: The little wax hands of the belle of the season [...] riding through Decomposition Row towards Kensington .at Decomposition Row, n.
London Dly News 27 Mar. 6/4: The plot turns upon the difficulties of one Swatchel [...] the proprietor of a punch-and-Judy show.at swatchel-cove, n.
London Dly News 31 Oct. 2/2: A coach [...] with a chap at the ribbons / Who doesn't care fippence / For his own neck.at fippence, n.
London Dly News 18 May 6/6: If you do that again, I’ll give you a shove of the eye.at shove in the eye (n.) under shove, n.
London Dly News 23 July 6/3: They clergyman in question was what is called ‘a couple beggar’ [...] his marriages were valid.at couple-beggar, n.
London Dly News 2 Dec. 2/2: Overlooked by Mr [John Camden] Hotten [...] ‘butcher’s plums’ (a sea phrase for the bones of meat).at butcher’s plums (n.) under butcher, n.1
London Dly News 2 Dec. 2/2: Another synonym for being hanged is dancing on a nothing in a hempen cravat.at dance on nothing (v.) under dance, v.
Daily News 2 Dec. n.p.: Another synonym for being hanged is dancing on a nothing in a hempen cravat [F&H].at dance upon nothing (v.) under dance, v.
London Dly News 25 Sept. 5/1: No more tight than we were, wasn’t he? [...] —Then what made him so precious fishy about the gills if he hadn’t been out on the batter the night before.at batter, n.3
letter to Editor Daily News 25 Sept. 5/1: He, the driver, must get up earlier and go to bed without getting buffy.at buffy, adj.
letter to Editor Daily News 25 Sept. 5/1: He, the driver, must get up earlier and go to bed without getting buffy, which he hadn’t done for a week of Sundays, before he found that little game would draw in the dibs.at dibbs, n.
London Dly News 25 Sept. 5/1: No more tight than we were, wasn’t he? [...] —Then what made him so precious fishy about the gills if he hadn’t been out on the batter the night before.at fishy about the gills under fishy, adj.1
letter to Editor Daily News 25 Sept. in (1960) 176: No more tight than we were, wasn’t he? [...] then what made him so precious fishy about the gills, if he hadn’t been out on the batter the night before?at fishy, adj.1
letter to Editor Daily News 25 Sept. 5/1: Did the driver think to flummox us by his lip because he thought we weren’t fly to him?at flummox, v.
letter in Daily News 25 Sept. in (1960) 176: He, the driver, must get up earlier and go to bed without getting buffy, [...] before he found that little game would draw in the dibs.at game, n.
London Dly News 25 Sept. 5/1: Did the driver think to ‘flummox’ us by his lip, because he thought we weren’t fly to him?at lip, n.1
letter to Editor Daily News 25 Sept. 5/1: My son [...] had just borrowed what he called ‘half a skid’ from me.at skiv, n.1
Daily News 12 May n.p.: Jeames [writes] ‘I expect this will be a cooker for me.’.at cooker, n.1
Daily News 26 May n.p.: ‘Metropolitan Police.’ Rubbing it in well is a well-known phrase amongst the doubtful portion of the constabulary [F&H].at rub in (v.) under rub, v.2
Daily News 13 July n.p.: In the event of a man refusing or sloping, as it was termed, his line was what was called ‘stagged’, and when he went for an advance it was resolutely refused .at stag, v.3
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