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John Bull in America 47: O, Buxton! well mayest thou be permitted to poison half the people of London with thine execrable small beer in consideration of thy godlike philanthropy! – And, O, Betty, Martin!at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
John Bull in America 47: O, Buxton! well mayest thou be permitted to poison half the people of London with thine execrable small beer in consideration of thy godlike philanthropy! – And, O, Betty, Martin! John Bull in America 14: The half-pint of whiskey, which every man takes in the morning the first thing he does after getting up, is called an anti-fogmatic.at antifogmatic, n.
John Bull in America 302: The women all as ugly as sin.at ugly as..., adj.
John Bull in America 167: My reflections were interrupted by the arrival of the stage, the driver being at length ‘prime bang up,’ that is to say, as drunk as a lord.at bang-up, adj.
John Bull in America 56: Seeing the barking iron [he] shrunk back and pretended to have mistaken the room.at barking iron, n.
John Bull in America 204: But to use the landlord’s choice phrase, ‘he got his bitters’ – that is to say, he was shot through the head by mine host.at get one’s bitters (v.) under bitters, n.
John Bull in America 123: For my part, I am [...] ready to say, or swear to anything, to be revenged on these bloody Yankees.at bloody, adj.
John Bull in America 198: We had a blow out here last Sunday.at blow-out, n.1
John Bull in America 104: I one night, at a literary party, happened to mention some opinion from Lord Bacon to a young lady who had the reputation of being rather blue.at blue, adj.4
John Bull in America 295: The two young banditti had taken down their rifles, and while loading them the following dialogue passed between them in whispers – ‘D--n him but I’ll do his business; I’ll give him his bitters’.at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
John Bull in America 118: I had qualified myself by being able to walk a crack after swallowing half a gallon of whiskey.at walk the chalk, v.
John Bull in America 75: ‘O,’ answered he [...] ‘this is what we call Dutch courage; and I assure you upon my credit, that I never knew a genuine brother Jonathan who could be brought to face an enemy, or die with decency, unless he had his skin full of whiskey, and well “corned,” as we say.’.at Dutch courage, n.
John Bull in America 36: If I don’t have him before the justice, darn my soul.at darn, v.
John Bull in America 266: If I ever meet that man again in this country, he or I shall have daylight shine through us.at let the daylight into/through (v.) under daylight, n.1
John Bull in America 249: Not a single mother’s son of them.at every mother’s son, n.
John Bull in America 162: Mind the music and the step, / And with the gals be handy.at gal, n.
John Bull in America 297: But I’m not to be humbugged by a cock-and-bull story.at humbug, v.
John Bull in America 121: I was brought up the very next day, tried, sentenced, and accommodated for three years in the State Prison, before I could say Jack Robinson.at before one can say Jack Robinson under Jack Robinson, n.
John Bull in America 50: This mode of disposing of my hands [...] occasioned me to bounce about, to the no small inconvenience of these Jonathans.at Jonathan, n.
John Bull in America 222: Princeton is the capital of old Kentuck, as these republican slang-whangers call it.at Kentuck, n.
John Bull in America 245: Lack-a-daisy! is that all?at lawks-a-mussy! (excl.) under lawks!, excl.
John Bull in America 290: Their supper consisted of loads of meat, ham, venison, game of various kinds, in quantities sufficient to feast an army.at loads of, n.
John Bull in America 219: They worry the puppies and kittens for amusement, when there are no little niggers to set the dogs at.at nigger, n.1
John Bull in America 199: We were just roasting a John Bull for not drinking his allowance of whiskey.at roast, v.
John Bull in America 75: ‘O,’ answered he [...] ‘this is what we call Dutch courage; and I assure you upon my credit, that I never knew a genuine brother Jonathan who could be brought to face an enemy, or die with decency, unless he had his skin full of whiskey, and well ‘corned,’ as we say’.at skinful, n.
John Bull in America 118: So he fell upon me [...] under the pretence that I had spunged upon him, as he called it.at sponge, v.
John Bull in America 47: I paid my bill [...] in truth it was a most swingeing one.at swingeing (adj.) under swinge, v.
John Bull in America 297: ‘Isn’t he a whopper?’ continued he, pointing to the carcass in the corner.at whopper, n.
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