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[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ in Fleet-Street Collection 8: Shotten herring’s a man when he lacks work. [...] A carp of your critic race smacks.
at carp, n.
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: A lily white muscle’s a beau, / And hot cockles a game for the ladies.
at play at hot cockles (v.) under cockles, n.
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ in Fleet-Street Collection 8: We shouldn’t miss much of [off?] the mark, / If we set down the clients as flat fish.
at flat fish (n.) under flat, adj.1
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: Shotten herring’s a man when he lacks work.
at shotten herring, n.
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: As soldiers the lobster all go.
at lobster, n.1
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ in Fleet-Street Collection 8: A lily white muscle’s a beau, / And hot cockles a game for the ladies.
at muscle, n.
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: I don’t say your doctors are jacks, / But we’re all glad enough when they pike it.
at pike, v.1
[UK] ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: Some say that your lawyer’s a shark.
at shark, n.
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