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[UK] Sun. Express (London) 10 July 4: A long line of stage coaches starting on a hell-for-leather race .
at hell for leather (adj.) under hell, n.
[UK] Sun. Express (London) 24 June 8/4: They fought in a rum-joint and everyone joined in [DA].
at rum-hole (n.) under rum, n.2
[UK] N. Gubbins Sun. Express (London) in Barlthrop & Wolveridge (1980) n.p.: Arter ’avin ’is Lilley and Skinner (dinner) m’lady, ’e went down the frog and toad (road). ’E said, m’lady, that ’e wanted a mouthful of pig’s ear.
at Lilley (and Skinner), n.
[UK] N. Gubbins Sun. Express (London) in Barlthrop & Wolveridge (1980) n.p.: hostess: Has his satin and lace (grace) gone to the rub-a-dub (club or pub), Jeames?
at satin and lace, n.
[UK] Sun. Express (London) 2 Dec. 2/3: What is the origin of that peculiarly laughable figure called Chad we see so often scribbled across our walls?
at Chad, n.
[UK] ‘Katzenjammer Kids’ in Sun. Express (Johannesburg) 5 Sept. n.p.: Didn’t I chust vallop der liddle swabs for making dod-rotted noises.
at dod-rotted (adj.) under dod, n.1
[UK] Sun. Express (London) 27 Apr. 6/6: The Cruelty Man has been asking questions about Janie.
at cruelty man, n.
[UK] in Sun. Express (London) 25 Oct. 7: The daffy-headed dimmo who worries about glove compartments doesn’t exist.
at daffy-headed (adj.) under daffy, adj.
[UK] Sun. Express (London) Mag. 28 Dec. 18/4: I am not racialist, but I can’t bear to watch the sooties any more – it’s like Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
at sooty, n.
[UK] Sun. Express (Grenada) 23 Nov. 12/4: [heading] ‘Badjohns’ who spawned today’s criminals. [...] Our crime wave is not isolated, or, in fact, alien, to this country. I ended last week mentioning that ‘badjohnism’ in places like Laventille is nothing new.
at bad john (n.) under bad, adj.
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