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[UK] ‘The Tight Little Navy’ Tegg’s Prime Song Book 6: They must strike or go to old Davy.
at go to Davy Jones’s locker (v.) under Davy Jones’s locker, n.
[UK] ‘Four In Hand’ in Tegg’s Prime Song Book 34: But a lawyer is as necessary as a rough rider, for if we will shy at Justice, or kick down credit for a caper, why we must be brought up to the mark; and we shall find Johnny Doe no Johnny Raw; and that when Richard Roe mounts the box, it’s all Dickie with us.
at all dicky with under dicky, adj.1
[UK] ‘Four In Hand’ in Tegg’s Prime Song Book 34: But a lawyer is as necessary as a rough rider, for if we will shy at Justice, or kick down credit for a caper, why we must be brought up to the mark; and we shall find Johnny Doe no Johnny Raw; and that when Richard Roe mounts the box, it’s all Dickie with us.
at John Doe, n.
[UK] ‘The Tight Little Navy’ Tegg’s Prime Song Book 6: Oh! its a snug little navy, / A right little, tight little navy.
at right, adv.
[UK] ‘Four In Hand’ in Tegg’s Prime Song Book 33: ‘Bang up’ seems the watch-word to be, / From one tip top driver t’other.
at tip-top, adj.
[UK] ‘Johnny Fig Junior’s Bargain’ Tegg’s Prime Song Book 9: Folks thought, who had some understanding, / It had damag’d her upper story.
at upper storey (n.) under upper, adj.
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