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Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: Aye, he’s a nice bit of parchment! one of the best fellows in the world.at bit of (a), n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: Aye, he’s a nice bit of parchment! one of the best fellows in the world. Pettyfogger Dramatized 107: Accommodation Men, are men who have failed in the world, yet preserve an external credit; ready to accept and indorse Bills; to become Bail, and justify to any amount, and give evidence; in short, to do anything the Pettyfogger requires.at accommodation man, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I iii: wolf: Who has called? fer.: Mr. Oakley, Sir, in his airs. He swears he’ll move the Court against you.at in one’s airs (adj.) under air, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I vi: Blast me, I’m flat — dam’me, ’tis all my eye, Betty Martin — and she was Jenny Slang’s sister.at all my eye and Betty Martin, phr.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I iii: ’Tis all up with him.at all up with under all up, adj.
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iv: As sure as God made apples, I’ll move the Court against him.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Pettyfogger Dramatized 107: Accommodation Men, are men who have failed in the world, yet preserve an external credit; ready to [...] become Bail, and justify to any amount, and give evidence; in short, to do anything the Pettyfogger requires.at bail, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized II i: Come, we’ll get a plate of slap-bang, and a pot and a pipe at the Colt’s Foot [Ibid.] 109: Slap bang. A-la-mode Beef.at slap-bang, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I iii: While I keep that fellow a beggar, I am sure of him. If he had a belly-full, and a good coat upon his back, he’d leave me.at bellyful (n.) under belly, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: Old Big-wig frightened the poor devil a little t’other day.at bigwig, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I iii: That fellow Sly always kicks me. [...] I’ve taught him to be such a black.at black, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: The Blackguards have been robbing me all the morning.at blackguard, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: We must bleed some of the dupes.at bleed, v.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iv: I’m always so blind drunk overnight.at blind drunk (adj.) under blind, adv.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II vi: Now I must get drunk to-night or the damn’d horrors will get me; I shall be eat up by the blues.at blues, n.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II vi: He was a fine old boy.at old boy, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: These are sad broken-kneed times!at broken-kneed (adj.) under broken, adj.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: He has buffed at least one thousand in my service.at buff, v.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized I iii: Bats is a good sort of a jolly-fellow;—a little bull-headed, or so—but he has brains enough for the Common Law.at bullheaded, adj.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: I’ll bum him. —There, swear the Affadavit, and give the writ to Snap.—Tell him if he don’t bum the Defendant he shall never bum for me again.at bum, v.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iii: Little or nothing; or may I never have a shy cock.at shy-cock, n.
in Pettyfogger Dramatized.at coliander (seed), n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iii: I always thought that fellow would come to an untimely end. He’s now gone to college.at college, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iii: Our calling would not be worth a copper, but for such gentry as him.at copper, n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: The best of us are now and then in want of coriander-seed.at coriander (seed), n.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: An Attorney might as well be without a Country-house as a Bailiff without a follower, a Crimp without his decoy girls.at crimp, n.2
Pettyfogger Dramatized I i: I’ll be damn’d, my dear Bobby, if I have not parted with the last shilling.at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
Pettyfogger Dramatized I ii: Dash it, Master!at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II i: I must do up Old Crazy, the landlord, and his neighbour. I’ve been giving them papp for some time. [Ibid.] 108: Do Up. To ruin.at do up, v.1
Pettyfogger Dramatized II iii: There’s ‘A Doctor’s Loss’ for you. (gives a one pound note).at doctor’s loss (n.) under doctor, n.
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