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Twice Round the Clock 130: Letters of introduction from people I didn’t know, or didn’t care five farthings about.at not care a farthing, v.
Twice Round the Clock 130: Letters of introduction from people I didn’t know, or didn’t care five farthings about. Twice Round the Clock 174: They [...] must keep the mysterious ‘ladies’ wardrobe shops’ known to the Abigails in aristocratic families.at abigail, n.1
Twice Round the Clock 348: The very thought of the picture goes far towards making us forgive the painter for his asinine ‘Sir Isumbrasse,’ or whatever the abortion was called.at abortion, n.
Twice Round the Clock 94: A two-hour speech at the meeting for the suppression of street ‘catch-’em-alive-O’s’.at catch ’em (all) alive-o, n.
Twice Round the Clock 83: For them the geniuses of ‘all-round collars’ invent every week fresh yokes of starched linen.at all-rounder, n.
Twice Round the Clock 378: This is no penny-gaff, no twopenny theatre [...] not so much as a ‘free-and-easy’ or a ‘sixpenny-hop.’.at free-and-easy, n.
Twice Round the Clock 51: Mr. Flybynight’s nose and [...] a cabman’s upper lip, both injured during a ‘knock-down and drag-out fight.’.at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
Twice Round the Clock 388: Ned Raggabones and Robin Barelegs, street Arabs, threw ‘cart-wheels’ into the midst of the throng.at arab, n.
Twice Round the Clock 57: The cursory view we have taken of Babylon the Great.at Babylon, n.1
Twice Round the Clock 114: The hunchback Scarron found himself a beautiful woman to love and nurse him; and General Tom Thumb turned benedict the other day.at benedict, n.
Twice Round the Clock 167: Eccentrics who, like the crazy Earl of Portsmouth, have an invincible penchant for funerals — ‘black jobs,’ as the mad lord used to call them.at black job (n.) under black, adj.
Twice Round the Clock 119: Why, bless me, how stupid I have been!at bless me! (excl.) under bless, v.1
Twice Round the Clock 38: They were wont to hear the chimes at midnight in the days when they [...] consorted with the Bona Robas.at bona roba, n.
Twice Round the Clock 118: The buffeting of his wretched ears, the upripping of his unhappy coat-collar [...] the ‘bonneting,’ the ‘ballooning,’ and the generally fiendish cruelties.at bonnet, v.
Twice Round the Clock 89: An Irish gentleman whose presence on the panel was considered invaluable at state trials, he having the reputation of an indomitable ‘boot-eater.’.at boot-eater (n.) under boot, n.2
Twice Round the Clock 174: Mysteriously transmitting [bids] through the intermediary of glib Jew boys.at Jew boy, n.
Twice Round the Clock 154: [They] made their miserable livings as runners and decoy-ducks, and bravos to these abominable nests [i.e. ‘gambling houses’]. They were called ‘Greeks.’.at bravo, n.
Twice Round the Clock 21: The process of bumbareeing is very simple. It consists in buying as largely as your means will afford of an auctioneer, hiring a stall for sixpence, and retailing the fish at a swinging profit.at bummaree, n.
Twice Round the Clock 166: Where these ruffiani, these copper captains and cozening buz-gloaks, are to be found [...] must remain a secret.at buz-gloak (n.) under buz, n.
Twice Round the Clock 89: Else I will invoke the powers of the great ca. sa. and the terrible fi. fa.at ca-sa, n.
Twice Round the Clock 119: The [...] importunities of the omnibus cads who are wrestling for old ladies and young children.at cad, n.1
Twice Round the Clock 274: The fumes of [...] ancient fish, of cagmag meat, of dubious mutton pies [...].at cagmag, adj.
Twice Round the Clock 112: A sly kiss, and a squeeze, and a pressure of the foot or so, and a variety of harmless endearing blandishments, known to our American cousins [...] under the generic name of ‘conoodling.’.at canoodle, v.
(ref. to c.1700) Twice Round the Clock 208: The Market Women’s, or ‘Flat-cap Club,’ was at one time quite a fashionable place of meeting.at flat-cap, n.
Twice Round the Clock 338: We will go sup at Evans’s [...] We descend a flight of some steps, pass through a vestibule, and enter the ‘Cave of Harmony.’.at Cave of Harmony, n.
Twice Round the Clock 48: I wish they could put down [...] the chaffering of the money-changers in the temple. [Ibid.] 174: Bidding adieu to Debenham and Storr’s, to the chaffering Jews, and the dusky ladies’ wardrobe women.at chaffer, v.1
Twice Round the Clock 153: Even at remote country race-courses, you may find [...] ‘charley-pitchers,’ the knavish gentry who pursue the games of ‘under seven or over seven,’ [...] or inveigle the unwary with ‘three little thimbles and one small pea.’.at charley-pitcher, n.
Twice Round the Clock 94: Pounding away [...] and, to use an Americanism, ‘chawing up’ the ministry at a tremendous rate.at chaw, v.
Twice Round the Clock 209: The principal nature of the ‘Surly Club’ appeared to lie in the members all being surly, ill-tempered, wrangling chuffs.at chuff, n.1
Twice Round the Clock 101: The time-honoured system of ‘chummage,’ or quartering two or more collegians in one room, and allowing the richest to pay his companions a stipulated sum to go out and find quarters elsewhere.at chummage, n.
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