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[UK] Southey Doctor 342/1: The Author does not, in vulgar parlance, think Small Beer of himself.
at think small beer of (v.) under small beer, n.
[UK] Southey Doctor 138/1: The idle and the dissipated, like birds of a feather, flock together.
at birds of a feather (n.) under bird, n.1
[UK] R. Southey Doctor 344/2: Old Tom, which rises above blue ruin to the tune of threepence a glass, and, yet more fiery than Old Tom, [...] gin and brimstone.
at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
[UK] R. Southey Doctor 354/1: He picked it up, – and it proved to be a Brummejam of the coarsest and clumsiest kind, with a head on each side.
at Brummagem, n.
[UK] Southey Doctor cxxxvi n.p.: What evils might be averted... in the Lords and Commons by clearing away bile [...] and occasionally by cutting for the simples [F&H].
at cut for the simples, adj.
[UK] Southey Doctor 344/2: Some of the Whole-hoggery in the House of Commons he would designate by Deady, or Wet and Heavy, some by weak tea, others by Blue-Ruin, Old Tom.
at deady, n.
[UK] R. Southey Doctor 338/2: He had exchanged his petticoats for the garb-masculine, denominated galligaskins.
at galligaskins, n.
[UK] Southey Doctor 368/2: The day was exceedingly hot, and [...] Rubios’s horse was overheated, and, as the phrase was, melted his grease.
at melt one’s grease (v.) under grease, n.1
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