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Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 8: As drunk as a fiddler’s bitch. / As drunk as a fool. / As drunk as a mop. / As drunk as a parson. / As drunk as a pig.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 8: As drunk as a fiddler’s bitch. / As drunk as a fool. / As drunk as a mop. / As drunk as a parson. / As drunk as a pig. Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 19: Like a frog in a fit. Said of one tipsey.at like a..., phr.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To be measured for a new suit of clothes = To have a thrashing.at measure someone for a new overcoat, v.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 11: As sure as God made little green apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 10: Safe as houses.at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 14: Happy as pigs in muck.at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 11: As smart as a carrot. Said of one gaily dressed.at ...a carrot (new scraped), ...half-scraped under smart as..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 10: As rough as a bear’s backside.at ...a badger’s arse under rough as..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 11: As ugly as sin. Said of an ill-favoured individual.at ugly as..., adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 34: You might as well rub your backside with a brickbat. Said of an action that would cause unnecessary hardship.at backside, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To come up/turn up like a bad half-penny.at bad halfpenny (n.) under bad, adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 16: To say of a man that ‘He knows how many beans makes five’ is to speak highly of his shrewdness.at know how many (blue) beans make five (v.) under beans, n.3
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 14: He doesn’t know where his behind hangs. Said of an insufferably proud man.at not know where one’s behind hangs (v.) under behind, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To blow one up skyhigh = To [be?]rate soundly.at blow up sky-high (v.) under blow up, v.1
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 15: He was born under a threepenny planet, i.e. is avaricious, a curmudgeon. Mrs. Chamberlain, West Worc. Words, 1882, quotes Swift [...] ‘If you are born under a threepenny planet you’ll never be worth fourpence’.at born under a threepenny halfpenny planet (adj.) under born, adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To be up in the boughs = To be out of temper. Lawson, Upton-on-Severn Words, &c., 1884.at up in the boughs, adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To box harry and chew rag, i.e., to go on short commons.at box Harry (v.) under box, v.2
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 11: Bread and pull it (pullet).at bread and pullet (n.) under bread, n.1
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 5: A Brummagem button. A young man of Birmingham.at Brummagem button (n.) under Brummagem, adj.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 15: Her’s the cat’s mother [...] Said to one who uses the possessive her of the third person instead of the nominative she.at cat’s mother (n.) under cat, n.1
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 7: As clear as mud. Ironical.at clear as mud (adj.) under clear, adj.1
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 38: Crap = To discharge excrement.at crap, v.2
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 27: To cry roast meat. (1) to make known one’s good luck. (2) to boast of women’s favours.at cry roast meat (v.) under cry, v.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 33: Who stole the donkey’s dinner?Answer. ‘Him with the straw brimmer.’.at who stole the donkey? under donkey, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 33: Even in Canada a straw hat is called ‘the donkey’s breakfast’.at donkey’s breakfast (n.) under donkey, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To be down on one’s duff. i.e. down on one’s luck; or in the dumps.at duff, n.2
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 39: Dunnekin or Donnykin = A privy, jakes.at dunnaken, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 14: He always had a crooked elbow [...] ‘Said of a man who has been a drunkard from his youth’.at crook the elbow (v.) under elbow, n.1
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 39: Gaubshite = A filthy boor.at gobshite, n.
Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 39: A jolter-yeded (headed) gaubshite is an insulting phrase in Warw.at jolter-headed, adj.
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