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[UK] J. Gay ‘Molly Mog’ Poetical Works II (1854) 172: O nephew! your grief is but folly, / In Town you may find better prog.
at prog, n.1
[UK] J. Gay ‘A New Song of New Similes’ Poetical Works II (1854) 181: Drunk as a piper all day long.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] J. Gay ‘A New Song of New Similes’ Poetical Works II (1854) 181: I drink, yet can’t forget her; / For though as drunk as David’s sow, / I love her still the better.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
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