1830 ‘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.
1830 ‘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.
1830 ‘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
1830 ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: Shotten herring’s a man when he lacks work.at shotten herring, n.
1830 ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: As soldiers the lobster all go.at lobster, n.1
1830 ‘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.
1830 ‘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
1830 ‘Catalogue of Odd Fish’ Fleet-Street Collection 8: Some say that your lawyer’s a shark.at shark, n.